ichu

The high Andean puna includes species of grasses such as Festuca dolichopylla, Stipa ichu, Calamagrostis spp.

Central Andean wet puna 2007

The reed bundles are connected with more ichu to build the spine of the boat.

Interactive Dig Tiwanaku - Experimental Archaeology 2002

Reed boat manufacturing in this region includes gathering and joining bundles of totora reeds and fastening them with rope made from dried out prairie grass or ichu.

Interactive Dig Tiwanaku - Experimental Archaeology 2002

Indians _ichu-cascarilla, _ from the grain _ichu_ amongst which it is usually found at the base of the Cordilleras; and the other, from its fruit-capsules two inches in length, as the _Cinchona acutifolia_ of

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

Here and elsewhere the animal raised varies widely-the llama and vicuna in Peru, which thrive best at 10,000 to 13,000 feet elevation, and multiply rapidly on the _ichu_ or coarse grass which clothes the slopes of the higher Andes up to snow line; sheep, goats, yaks and herds of dzo, a useful hybrid between yak and cow, in the highland districts of Sze Chuan.

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

The women and children then cover the blocks of ice with Ichu grass (_Joara ichu_, R. P.), after which they are drawn by another party of Indians to a depôt, about two leagues distant, where they are packed on the backs of mules.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853