{"id":1494,"date":"2023-02-08T12:45:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/vegetable-roofs\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:45:07","slug":"vegetable-roofs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/vegetable-roofs\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetable roofs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">From an early age, man has used what they have at his disposal to build huts and shelters. Whether to guard against inclement weather or to get a hotter room, the use of stones, branches and leaves has become the walls, beams and roofs of these huts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9741\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9741\" src=\"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Rietdekken-_Van_links_naar_rechts-_spreiriet_dekriet_wilgetenen_en_wilgegaarden_-_Unknown_-_20355801_-_RCE-678x1024-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Bundles and roofs of <em>Thamnochortus spiciger<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today we continue using these materials in construction and although clay or slate tiles are the most commonly used, we still find constructions where the nature provides the materials needed to save us from rain and sun.<\/p>\n<p>We want to introduce you the specie <em>Thamnochortus spiciger<\/em> (Thunb.) Spreng. this specie is native from South Africa, specifically from the West Cape of Good Hope. Traditional houses and huts in this area are built with <em>Thamnochortus spiciger<\/em> (called &#8220;olifantsriet&#8221; or &#8220;dekriet&#8221; in Afrikaans) roofs. In the Marimurtra\u2019s Botanical Garden you can find this species in the third garden, just in front of the cliff, in the Fynbos vegetation area.<\/p>\n<p>In Catalonia, we have also traditionally used other species to build roofs and houses, such as the common reed (<em>Phragmites australis<\/em>) in the tradicional houses Delta de l&#8217;Ebre (south Catalonia), or ling (<em>Calluna vulgaris<\/em>) and diferent species of heath (<em>Erica sp.<\/em>) in the case of the mountain huts and shelters builts arround the Iberian Peninsula.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9742\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9742\" src=\"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3782197652_46478be824_b-300x200-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Common reed roof from the tradicional houses in Delta de l\u2019Ebre<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In other countries, we also find the use of these materials in roof construction, as would be the case oh the english cottages where they use different plants in their construction such as common reed, bulrush (<em>Typha sp.<\/em>) or rye (<em>Secale cereale<\/em>) among others; palm trees are also widely used as the specie <em>Arenga pinnata<\/em> on the roofs of the Meru Towers in Bali or other palm species in constructions in Vietnam, Hawaii or Cuba.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9743\" style=\"width: 366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9743\" src=\"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5520038580_3f9966eb32_b-e1675856256922-300x253-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"309\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">English Cottage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9745\" style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9745\" src=\"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/17057853821_993dbeaf0a_b-300x199-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"257\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Roof of palm leafes of Meru Toers<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a curiosity, we will finish with a seaweed roof from the L\u00e6s\u00f8 island in Denmark:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9746\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9746\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9746\" src=\"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/48023456192_37743590d8_b-225x300-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">House with seaweed roof<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an early age, man has used what they have at his disposal to build huts and shelters. Whether to guard against inclement weather or to get a hotter room, the use of stones, branches and leaves has become the walls, beams and roofs of these huts. Today we continue using these materials in construction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}