Hey all; What is the kind of bamboo required by pandas? I'm wondering if some of the garden stakes for sale in the USA take dinner out of some panda's mouth...the pictures I've seen of bamboo growth seem so dense, and notwithstanding whatever huge amount a panda might eat in a normal day, I'm just wondering what is really at the root of the decline of panda populations... I mean, what human wouldn't want to look into those soulful eyes (assume no danger of mauling before considering your answer!).
Michele > Fargesia nitida is one of my favorite plants period. A beautiful > "clumping" form that will behave nicely. It does appreciate some > afternoon shade. I sell some at my shop and have a small border of it > in my yard. > > > On Jan 4, 2:14 pm, Bart Bouricius <[email protected]> wrote: >> though bamboo is indeed fast growing, some of this is deceptive as, like >> wire grass, the early stage of long leaf pine, there is a long period of >> establishing root systems before the ultra fast growth can occur. >> >> There is a saying about newly planted bamboo: >> >> The first year it sleeps >> The second year it creeps >> The third year it leaps >> >> For the first 15 years or so everything in your grove is one plant. All >> the >> above ground culms are connected by the underground rhizomes. When you >> plant >> a single plant, it starts putting out new rhizomes. The root mass will >> usually double in size each year. As the root mass increases, the energy >> available for the plant increases and the size of the new culms will >> increase in diameter and height in direct proportion to this energy. >> >> Where does the energy come from, you ask. This is where leaf mass comes >> in. >> The leaves on your new plant transpire water that the roots provide and >> in >> return the leaves convert sunlight into food and send it to the rhizomes >> to >> use for producing more rhizomes and to store for use for the next year's >> new >> shoots. This process will continue until the grove flowers and dies. >> Critical root mass is when your grove produces the maximum size culms it >> is >> going to produce based on local growing conditions. For most varieties >> this >> will occur somewhere between 7 and 15 years (up to 30 years for some >> seedling varieties) and after that the grove will continue to produce >> the >> maximum size culms it is able to produce in that particular location. >> >> The above was taken from a website of a seller of >> bamboo:www.midatlanticbamboo.com I would normally try to avoid a >> commercial >> refrence, however this is a pretty good description of the process. I >> suspect that the references in the previous e-mail eventually got around >> to >> this, but this makes it cheap and dirty and quick. >> >> Bart Bouricius >> Amherst, MA >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Edward Frank <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > James, ENTS, >> >> > James, In an older post mentioned in a recent link >> >http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/north_carolina/20090104-n... >> > you ask: >> >> > There is a bamboo ( Cane ) patch on the VA property. Has anyone in >> ENTS >> > ever measured how tall bamboo can get? Also, check out that strange >> sequoia >> > that I photographed! >> >> > I am curious about that also. They are big and tree-like even though >> they >> > are not technically trees. This is what Wikipedia has to say on their >> > height. >> >> > Bamboo >> >> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo are a group of perennial evergreen >> > (except for certain temperate species) plants in the true grass family >> > Poaceae, subfamily Bambusoideae, tribe Bambuseae. Giant bamboos are >> the >> > largest members of the grass family.There are more than 70 genera >> divided >> > into about 1,000 species. Many prehistoric bamboos exceeded heights >> of 75 >> > metres (250 ft). Primarily growing in regions of warmer climates >> during the >> > Cretaceous period, vast fields existed in what is now Asia. Bamboos >> are the >> > the largest grasses, sometimes reaching 100 ft (30 m). >> >> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_species Bamboo listen is a group >> of >> > woody perennial grasses in the true grass family Poaceae, which is a >> large >> > family with over 10,000 species. In the tribe Bambuseae also known as >> > Bamboo, there are 91 genera and over 1,000 species. The size of bamboo >> > varies from small annuals to giant timber bamboo. Bamboo was only >> added to >> > the world in between 30 and 40 million years ago, after the demise of >> the >> > dinosaurs. Bamboo is the fastest growing woody plant in the world. >> They can >> > grow up to 3–4 feet/day (1.5-2.0 inches/hr) >> >> > Bamboo Forestshttp://www.bambooandtikis.com/bamboo-forest Because of >> > their relatively expedient growth, bamboo forests are of the easiest >> types >> > of forest for man to reproduce. The largest bamboo tree in existence, >> in >> > fact, can be found in the bamboo forest institute at the Yunnan Normal >> > University, called the Menghai forest. The Menghai forest is an >> artificially >> > built forest, and it is home to the largest bamboo tree specimen in >> the >> > world. The director of the bamboo institute reports that the plant >> measures >> > *46 meters in height, with 36 centimeters and an estimated weight of >> 450 >> > kg.* This giant bamboo plant, as confirmed by farmers who live and >> work in >> > or near the forest, grew to its full potential during a single year. >> >> >http://www.flickr.com/photos/19915...@n00/149189348/ Bamboo Forest >> > Sagano, Kyoto, Japan >> >> > Bamboo-Dominated Forests of the Amazon >> >http://www.yale.edu/ceo/Projects/Students/bamboo_forests.html >> >> > Canebrakes: Missouri's Bamboo Forests >> >http://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2002/10/30.htm >> >> > Edward Frank >> >> >http://nature-web-network.blogspot.com/ >> >http://primalforests.ning.com/ >> >http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=709156957 >> >> > -- >> > Eastern Native Tree Societyhttp://www.nativetreesociety.org >> > Send email to [email protected] >> > Visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en >> > To unsubscribe send email to >> [email protected]<entstrees%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>- >> Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
