Tule
Schoenoplectus Acutus
Tule is exactly 2 species with 1 name! If you add var. occidentalis, you get the exact tule.
Tule is a sedge with pale, radially symmetrical flowers, and a stem as large as 3 meters tall! It has a hard tubular or triangle stem. The blossoms are cherry-like, too!
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Tule grows near most water forms [rivers and lakes]. It especially lives near the Sacramento, Riparian areas, and tribal lands.
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This plant is edible like catail, so much it is very edible. The rhizomes can be pounded into flour. Yet there are WAY more edible parts.
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As for medicine, this plant is almost as big on that than edibility. The pith is haemostatic with a poultice nearby. It cures poison oak, too.
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This plant is used in a LOT of ways other than food and medicine. It is as cloth, boat, spear, and decoration, too. As decor it has more than 1000 uses.
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More Facts about Tule
This tule blooms in May to August. It acts as a filter. It belongs in the family Cyperaceae. Scirpus and Schoenoplectus are the two genuses that bulrushes live. It comes from a biblical story. It provides a nest cover for fish such as bass and bluegill. A similar type is the Californian tule. Luiseno used tule for burns and wounds.
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