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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"
Thatching
Probably one of the oldest dwelling construction crafts.
Long stemmed plants can be bundled together and bound and woven together to thatch walls, roofs, floors and beds.
Plants that provide good thatch
- Tree; Baobab - Adansonia: bark fibres ~ Africa, Australia, Madagascar.
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Plant; Ferns - Pteridophyta; leaves (Caution Bracken which is common fern found everywhere is reputed to have dangerous carcinogenic spores) ~ most places ~ global. -
Plant; Grasses - Poaceae; Aeriel parts ~ open spaces ~ global. - Plant; Hemp - feral/ - Cannabis, Ditchweed: stalks ~ rocky slopes ,waysides ~ western Asia, eastern Europe, western Russia.
- Plant; Typha/ Cattails/ Bulrush/ Bullrush Typhaceae; stems ~ in and by water, wetlands ~ northern hemisphere.
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Plant; Nettles - Urtica: stalks ~ disturbed land, waysides, hedgerows woodland, grasslands, riverbanks, ~ temperate regions ~ global. - Plant; Reeds; aerial parts ~ in and by water, wetlands ~ temperate and tropical regions ~ northern hemisphere, Africa, Australia, Eurasia.
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Plant; Sedges - Cyperaceae: aerial parts ~ by water, wetlands, marshes ~ temperate to tropical areas. - Plant; Nipa Palm/ Attap Palm/ Mangrove Palm; leaves ~ S.E Asia, Australia.
- Tree; Coconut Palm; fibres ~ bark and nutshell/seedpod fibres , leaves ~ tropical and subtropical coastlines.
