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"Cattails" are edible. The genus "Typha". I only eat the ones with the big brown "heads" on them. That is my way of identifying them. I never eat anything that doesn't have that tell-tale brown head. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattail
now you tell me! I sold a house 3 years ago where the lot beside ours home was built after we got there, and a pro landscaper planted tall willows along the property line, where all his water runoff came and dumped into my yard, especially when they ran his sprinklers (that lot was all uphill from us). two month later, a few cattails were growing from the planted rootball at the base of the nearest tree, where the runoff was the deepest and entered our land. Within 3 years, our fescue along the line, which was always too wet to mow, was heavily infested with your favorite cattails, and by the fifth year, when we sold that house, there was a sea of only cattails there.
If I'd have known they were edible, I would have advertised them as a property asset instead of giving away a few bucks to the new owners to have them dug up and removed!!!!
I remember one year my children wanted punks for lighting, we spread them out on our picnic table in the back yard only to find in the morning that the squirells like to eat them.
What a mess, next time we hung them in the garage to dry.
