I adore the paper resulting from cooking pineapple tops in soda ash and processing with a blender.Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
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Summer 2005 has been excruciatingly oppressive and there was only an hour a day that I could bear to turn on the gas , so I have no idea how long cooking took.
........ I stuffed the tops in a pot, cooked over a week and half in soda ash until green brightened, then darkened. .
I was instructed to bash them a bit before cooking, but I received that good instrution after I had already started t cook them.
After a brief blending, the pulp was green and manageable. It pulled and couched easily. They were hydraulic pressed, air dried.
The paper dried to a darker grene and is crisp but very very strong like extended beaten flax--- I say that because a sheet that left the felt dried to a tightly bunched and much shrunken version of its sisters... the thing is I could tug and stretch this sheet and it stretched and moved without tearing or breaking.....
It looks gorgeous in front of a light. .
I hope to be able to acquire bunches more from a catere or supermarket. .
My thanks to the intrepid spreader-of-information, Prue Townsend. .
Superdivision
Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division(from USDA Plant site) .
Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class
Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Subclass
Zingiberidae -
Order
Bromeliales -
Family
Bromeliaceae - Bromeliad family
Genus
Ananas P. Mill. - pineapple
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