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American Bamboo Society - Information about the society and its chapters, uses and cultivation of bamboo in general and for individual species, glossary, and bibliography..
Bamboo, common name for about 45 genera and about 480 species of perennial, woody, usually shrubby or treelike plants of the grass family (see Grasses).
Growing Bamboo in Georgia by David Linvill Frank Linton Michael Hotchkiss Cooperative Extension Service/The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Quoted from A Yankee on the Yangtze. William Edgar Geil. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1904. In Yangtze Patrol.
The Field Museum opened its new exhibition for a media preview Tuesday morning, displaying over 100 woven bamboo baskets and different aspects of Japanese culture.
In Southern Yunnan, the bamboo flora includes Indo-Malayan genera like Dendrocalamus, Cephalostachyum, Melocalamus, Gigantochloa, Thyrsostachys, Pseudostachyum, which are major Southeast Asian elements.
Bamboo is best known for its hard stems (culms) that are used in place of wood for a variety of applications, including furniture, scaffolding, flutes, fence posts, flooring, and even bicycle frames. Bamboos also serve as decorative plants, the source of tender shoots used in Chinese cuisine, and a
The American Phytopathological Society is an international scientific organization that promotes the study and management of plant diseases through publications, meetings, and APSnet.
On April 13, 1998, the Field Epidemiology Training Program in the Thailand Ministry of Public Health (TMPH) was informed of six persons with sudden onset of cranial nerve palsies suggestive of botulism who were admitted to a provincial hospital in northern Thailand.
Culms of an arborescent bamboo arise from the horizontal rhizome system. In the center, a young shoot still possesses the large leaves of the primary shoot. Each leaf is attached at a node by an encircling leaf base. When the leaf abscises, a circular leaf scare is formed.