PaperMaking from Plants:
Hydrangea Stem Paper



Hydrangea Stems, the last of last year's cooked but not processed plant materials in the refrigerator, were intensely blendered and made marginal-- almost okay, light brown paper.
Beating may well have improved it.



I will henceforth save all trimmings from hydrangea-I really like the paper I got from mixing it with knotweed.

Subkingdom Tracheobionta -- Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta -- Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta -- Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida -- Dicotyledons
Subclass Rosidae
Order Rosales
Family Hydrangeaceae -- Hydrangea family
Genus Hydrangea L. -- hydrangea P








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