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Typha latifolia L.

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Uses	Part	Preparation	Effect	Notes
Vegetable
	Pollen
	Root	Dried into flour, cooked or raw
	Flower	Boil		Male flower, eaten with potato or soup
	Flower	Burned male flower
	Leaf			Made into mats, rugs, baskets, lodge cover
	Shoot
	Stem	Boiled		White basal part
	Leaf			Firewood
	Seed			Fuzz as war medicine, diaper lining, feminine hygiene, insulation
	Stem	Soaked in kerosene		Torch, with flower head
	Flower	Raw or cooked		Before pollen appears
Dye	Leaf		beige, gold, green	Mordant(s) -alum, chrome, iron
Medicine	Leaf	Fresh chopped into poultice	Skin/sores/bleeding	Wounds and burns
	Root	Dried and pulverized in decoction	Digestion
	Seed		Skin/sores/bleeding	Down for burns

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