Spiny Headed Mat Rush Recipes

It s quite confronting but the resilience of these plants to regenerate after such an ordeal is astounding and lomandra is one of those species that has surprised me.

Spiny headed mat rush recipes. Bright green strap like leaves. Spiny headed mat rush photos. Lomandra tanika spiny head mat rush or basket grass i have been growing lomandra tanika in my garden in the northern sydney suburb of westleigh for many years. Lomandra longifolia was very useful plant to aboriginal people.

The spiny headed mat rush is a rhizomatous sedge like plant forming dense tussocks of stiff long flat or slightly rolled inwards nearly parallel sided leaves up to about 1 cm wide. Developing fruit of spiny headed mat rush photo. They used the leaves to make fine baskets and the seeds to make flour. It is an improved compact fine leaf form of the popular and widely grown lomandra longifolia and you can classify the plant as a strappy leaf plant.

Drying the seed heads of the lomandra longifolia spiny headed mat rush basket grass. Grows in temperate to arid across the east coast of australia leaves have traditionally been used for basket making. Spikey straw coloured fliowers on yellowish flattened stems. The leaves are shiny 40 100 cm long and are usually taller than the flowering stem.

We re also starting new projects like this one. This pack contains 30 seeds and propagating instructions. Large perennial herb that forms tussocks to 1 m. Developing fruit of spiny headed mat rush.

Not only do these beautiful australian native grasses make refreshing bush snacks but their leaves have traditionally been used for basket making.