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      Cutting (s)edge

      Just by the side of the Chemin des Tumuli between St. Hubert and Bonniers, there is this luxuriant Wood Sedge (Laîche des bois, Boszegge), 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑥 𝑠𝑦𝑙𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎.

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      This specimen may well be over ten years old and, being semi-evergreen, offers winter shelter for the smaller creatures.

      The English word sedge comes from an old Germanic root meaning "cutting", a reference to the often sharp-edged leaves. The old rhyme still helps:

      “Sedges have edges,

      Rushes are round,

      Grasses have knees

      That bend to the ground.”

      'Knees' refers to the nodes.

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