I believe that flowering of bamboos en masse is a phenomenon common to many species of them. Not sure if it is because of similar weather conditions or the same age of clumps triggering all to bloom simultaneously, however.
Regards-- Ken Greby Palmetto Bay, Florida USA --- On Thu, 1/8/09, kiran srivastava <[email protected]> wrote: From: kiran srivastava <[email protected]> Subject: [indiantreepix:7304] Re: Dendrocalamus flowering! To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 4:53 AM This is interesting as we had bamboo flowering en masse in Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), Mumbai in Dec 2007. Subsequently, it was reported elsewhere too! I saw one bamboo plant flowering in Silonda Trail in SGNP last Sunday. The rest were all dead. However, in some places on the same trail we can still see a carpet of bamboo grass. Cheers, Kiran Srivastava Mumbai On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Rajendra Shinde <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, On Sunday, I was in Khandala. Saw Dendrocalamus strictus (Kalak) profuse flowering on entire Khandala hill slopes. At Xavier's Villa, opp Zara's on old Pune Mumbai Highway, there are large number of Dendrocalamus (wild), all of them were profusely flowering. Same thing on the slopes of the Hills. Rajendra -- Dr. Rajendra D. Shinde, Director, Council of International Programmes, & Reader in Botany St. Xavier's College, (University of Mumbai) Mumbai 400001. India. Off. Tel. +91-22-2262 0662 ext 356 Cell : 9819100131 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
