Published on May 23, 2015
In this video I gonna eat and cook cattail which is an awesome survival food because it is containing a lot of starch.
Two species of cattails are common in North America today. One is Typha latifolia (TYE-fuh lat-ih-FOH-lee-uh) the other Typha angustifolia (an-gus-tee-FOH-lee-uh.) Typha is from Greek and means “marsh” — now you how “typhoid” got its name and Typhoid Mary. Latifolia mean wide leaf, angustifolia means skinny leaf. Besides that difference, the T. latifolia likes shallower water, the T. angustifolia deeper water, but it is not unusual to find them living side by side and also crossbreeding – L’angustifolia perhaps. Cattails get their name from their mature brown cylindrical flower spikes.
