Typha latifolia

Typha latiofolia, otherwise known as Great Reedmace, is found in Hillsborough Forest Park. Many were told the story of Moses in his basket of bulrushes and pitch, and it is often believed that he was surrounded by bulrushes such as the likes of the ones above. But here is an anonymous quote -  “due to graphic mistake (or possibly even a deliberate error on his part) made by the Victorian artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, who famously painted "Moses in the Bulrushes" with the child's cradle depicted amongst reedmace instead of amongst clumps of the far less spectacular-looking bulrush, several subsequent generations of children have grown up believing that the reedmace is actually called the bulrush and is a myth that perpetuates to this day....”.