Papyrus
பன்புல்നൈൽഗ്രാസ്
Cyperus papyrus L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 91 cm
Cyperaceae
Also called Papyrus sedge, Papayrus, Paper Plant, Papyrus Sedge
Formerly Chlorocyperus papyrus
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Africa, N. IsraelKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 1.5 m to 2.4 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Green, brownRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension brown, cream, green; Wikipedia brown, green
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Papiro del Mediterráneo, Paragüitas del Mediterráneo
- German
- Echter Papyrus
- Hebrew
- גומא הפפירוס
- French
- Papyrus
- Finnish
- papyruskaisla
- Czech
- šáchor papírodárný
- Russian
- Сыть папирусная
- root
- Koma, mokoma, muqoma
- Afrikaans
- Papirus
- Chinese (China)
- 纸莎草
- Japanese
- カミガヤツリ, 紙蚊帳吊
- Chinese
- 紙莎草
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Cyperus papyrus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.