Operation Wildflower
  • Home
  • Albums
  • Links
    • Botanical Gardens
    • Other Sites
    • OWF Sites
  • Information
    • About Us
    • Articles
    • Contact Us
    • Disclaimer
    • Glossary
    • Plant Records
      • Aloes
      • Bulbs
      • Climbers
      • Cycads
      • Euphorbias
      • Ferns
      • Grasses
      • Herbs
      • Orchids
      • Parasites
      • Shrubs
      • Succulents
      • Trees
    • Sources of Information
    • Subject Index
Home Home » TYPES » Grasses » Phragmites australis, common reed or fluitjiesriet
Back to Category Overview
Total images in all categories: 12,451
Total number of hits on all images: 7,802,988

Phragmites australis, common reed or fluitjiesriet

Phragmites australis, common reed or fluitjiesriet
Start View full size
[Please activate JavaScript in order to see the slideshow]
Previous Previous
Image 62 of 82  
Next Next
Image 64 of 82  
  • Melinis repens in flower
  • Melinis repens yellowish inflorescence
  • Paspalum dilatatum
  • Paspalum dilatatum leaves
  • Pennisetum setaceum, an exotic
  • Pentameris curvifolia
  • Phragmites australis
  • Phragmites australis and its many uses
  • Phragmites australis, common reed or fluitjiesriet
  • Pogonarthria squarrosa
  • Schizachyrium sanguineum in the Rhenosterspruit Nature Conservancy
  • Setaria lindenbergiana
  • Setaria megaphylla
  • Setaria megaphylla growing densely
  • Setaria megaphylla inflorescence
  • Setaria megaphylla starting to flower
  • Setaria megaphylla young growth

Image information

Description

The narrow, green or blue-green leaves of Phragmites australis grow alternately along the stems in two opposing ranks. They reach dimensions of 35 cm long and 3,5 cm wide.

The common name of fluitjiesriet comes from the single note, high pitched whistle that children make from the top, young leaf from a stem.

The flowers grow at stem tops in dark purplish panicles. The many spikelets in one panicle gradually age to a pale grey or silvery-grey appearance, enhanced by long, silky hairs. Flowering occurs in summer and autumn (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2010; Wikipedia).

Hits
1528
Photographer
Ivan Latti
Author
Ivan Latti
 
Back to Category Overview
Powered by JoomGallery