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Nursery - Products List - Grass-like
Plant Category : Grass-like
An artificial classification that groups plants together by their resemblance to true grasses. As with the grasses (excluding Bamboo), they are all herbaceous monocotyledonous plants with narrow strap shaped leaves. They are often used interchangeably with grasses in the landscape and many horticultural references and nursery catalogs lump them all together as “Ornamental Grasses”.
Cyperus papyrus/ Egyptian papyrus Papyrus - Egypt is the origin of this plant. Found along the North African coast. Thrives in desolate areas of Sudan that receive adequate soil moisture. Historically, dried papyrus was used over 2000 years ago along the Nile River. Most often for paper. In fact, some of the founding documents of the Declaration of Independence were written on paper produce by papyrus.