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Stephen M. Henning wrote:
Ron Hardin wrote: What's the one that grows up to 3 feet a day and can be used to choke out trees? Paul Bunyan, he chokes them with his bare hands. On the serious side their are a number of different bamboos. Talking in generalities, there are two types of bamboo, clumping and spreading (running). The clumping can be controlled. The spreading is difficult to control unless grown in containers. Spreading bamboos have the capability of sending rhizomes out distances roughly equal to the height of the tallest bamboo. For example, a ten-foot tall bamboo can send rhizomes out 8-10 feet before sending up a new shoot. Bamboo rhizomes are generally shallow, less than one foot in depth. If the bamboo has nowhere else to spread, it can send its rhizomes deeper. Water is a natural barrier. Streams or consistently wet sites such as bogs act as barriers that the bamboo will not cross. Bamboo does all its growing in less than three months. Bamboo that is five feet tall and 1/2 inch in diameter can be the same age as bamboo that is 100 feet tall and a foot in diameter. Moso bamboo will eventually stand 70-75 feet tall. During growing season, the moso grows three feet in 24 hours. Some people claim they can hear it growing. The world's record was one of Japan's commonest bamboos (Phyllostachys bambusoides), which grew almost four feet (121 cm) in one day. At 36m (118 ft) Dendrocalamus brandisii is the world's tallest bamboo. Here's a Bamboo Expert on Radio Japan a few years ago, that I saved because of the delivery as much as anything, but mentioning some of the odd facts http://rhhardin.home.mindspring.com/japancut.bamboo.ram He divides bamboo into native to Japan and not. -- Ron Hardin On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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