swamp plant

(It's called surimi.) Did you know that marshmallows originally were made from the root sap of the marsh mallow, a swamp plant, and that it could serve as a fine laxative?

Nong Thale, a very beautiful but not well-known preserved swampland, situated not far from Ao Nang, is home to a multitude of birds, iridescent insects, water-life and rare swamp plants.

There was little way of making a living then, besides trapping, hunting, fishing and digging sereca root and swamp plants. There were few roads back in the hills.

If I want music, the wind through the many different swamp plants creates melodies more complex than anything found on satellite radio.

* Reed-sedge peat is the remains of a variety of swamp plants such as sedge grasses and reeds.