![]() ![]() John Gerard (1545 – 1611/12), an English botanist, wrote in the Herball: "The kind of Reed, which I have Englished Paper Reed, or Paper Plant, is the same (as I do read) that Paper was made of in Egypt, before the invention of paper made of linen clouts was found out. ![]() ![]() Those who want to have papyrus at its best bake it in a redhot oven and eat it. The papyrus, which grows yearly there, they draw out of the marshes the upper part of ot they cut off and use for other purposes, but the lower part, to the lenght of one cubit (about half a metre), they eat they sell it, as well. 484 BCE - 425 BCE), the History, BookII.92: The Egyptians, who live in the marshes. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.Ĭyperus papyrus supplied the earliest known paper. The Hebrew words referring Cyperus papyrus are גומא, “gômê” or”gomeh” (Greek, θίβη, meaning “ark or wicker basket”, πάπυρος, meaning “papyrus”) and עָרוֹת, “aroth” or “arot” (Greek, τό άχι τό χλωρόν), rendered “meadows” in the English Revised Version of the Bible. May, June, July, August, September, OctoberĬyperus, kyperos, kypeiros "galingale, sedge" Latin cyperos, the name cyperis, idis was applied by Plinius to the root of the Cyperus. Nile papyrus, Egyptian paper plant, Bulrushīright green, smooth, rounded culms 40mm thick at the base, up to 500cm tall, topped by a dense cluster of thin, bright green, shiny stalks Cyperus papyrus, Nile papyrus, Egyptian paper plant, Bulrush, ![]()
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