According to The Botanical World of Moldosu's Realm, written by the famed botanist and cartographer Tsulic Gartiovus, Typha regis "King's Cattail" is strangely prevalent in most of Moldosu's Realm. Found along all sorts of bodies of water, including bucktooth ponds, and some of the larger ponds, they are roughly twenty-one feet (7 m) high at maturity, leaves light green, basal, fleshly, lanceolate, and large, largest of all cattail leaves, roughly twelve feet (4 m) long and ten inches (25 cm) wide. Each shoot produces roughly 5-7 such leaves. The plant has a large central stalk, topped off by a long brown flowering head. The plant also has a long rhizome, usually grows about as long as the plant is tall, 21 ft or 7 m, and about a foot (35 cm) in diameter. The rhizome is not only edible but quite tasty, especially when pan-fried in olive oil with some aquatic herbs. The leaves are used in making rope, paper, chairs, mats, thatching, etc. The magical properties of the plant are limited, being used mostly in some water-breathing potions, as well as occasionally in some protective hexes, in both cases the flower is used. If you have any questions regarding King's Cattail, do comment below.
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Stephen Sitwell
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