On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:26:44 -0500, Steve Wertz
wrote:

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 01:25:08 GMT, Karen wrote:

Steve Wertz wrote in
m:

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 23:32:53 GMT, Karen wrote:

Steve Wertz wrote in
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Bamboo has an outer covering, like most trees and plants.
It's not a mushroom.

Actually, mushrooms are more closely related to wildebeests than to
petunias.

Was there another word I should have used to describe bamboo
bark as opposed to their edible shoots?

"Non-existent"..? :-)


Ruff, Ruff!

'bark' is an outer covering of a tree. Most bamboo skewers I've
seen were made out of the 'wood' of a bamboo. I've seen a few
that were made of the 'wood' and a little 'bark', none that were
exclusively 'bark'.

Well, can you define the 'wood' of the bamboo stalk, considering
the center is fleshy and not skewer-worthy?

Bamboo is hollow AFAIK; it's a grass.

I suggest you to go out ad try and chop some down some bamboo and see
for yerself.

The pith dies as bamboo stems mature, leaving them hollow.

No such thing as bamboo wood. Bamboo's structure is roughly analogous
to reinforced concrete... long, hard rods scattered in a matrix.