Dear Ken, I have seen the flowering three times so far since my childhood. I think that it is because of same age. Bamboos flower once in 13 years I think and then the bamboos in the entire area dries up. The tragedy these days is that people go and collect the seeds, hull it and eat it like rice. Earlier only the tribals used to do it, however, these days people pay the tribals as much as Rs. 100/ kg and take them. So much so that we do not see any bamboos sprouting. Unless the forest department does something about it immediately, entire areas will be without these beautiful clumps. Regards Yazdy Palia.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Kenneth Greby <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
