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canadianplant
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Need info on temperate timber species

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I am doing a paper on the expanding range of forestry tree species for my silviculture class, and would like to add a few "species of interest". The one thing comes to mind is the possibility of bamboo production in BC and southern ontario in the not to distant future. Can anyone suggest some species that would be hardy to say, zone 5-7 that could be used for trials and or timber?
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canadianplant wrote:I am doing a paper on the expanding range of forestry tree species for my silviculture class, and would like to add a few "species of interest". The one thing comes to mind is the possibility of bamboo production in BC and southern ontario in the not to distant future. Can anyone suggest some species that would be hardy to say, zone 5-7 that could be used for trials and or timber?
Well I heard USDA studies found that Phyllostcahys Rubromarginata was a prime candidate for cultivation and it would be rasonably hardy in most of that range. Though it would probably struggle in zone 5. That being said, I wouldn't use bamboo (a grass) too heavily in a paper about silviculture.

Anyway this brings up an interesting question. If i'm walking through an 'area' of timber bamboo am i walking in a forest or a prairie?
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Thanks - I wont be going too heavily into bamboo, maybe a paragraph or two. Just something that may be of interest in the coming years. It will focus on sugar maple and yellow birch, and the loss of range of black spruce, white spruce and balsam fir (important species here for forestry in NW ontario)
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I live in southern bc my zone is 6a and the bamboo plants I have seem to be doing well.
the plants I have in the ground right now are as follows:

Phyllostachys vivax 'Aureocaulis'
Phyllostachys nuda
Phyllostachys nigra 'Henon'
Phyllostachys nigra

hopefully this helps you out a bit.
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Zone 7 there are lots of possibilities. Zone 5 only a few.
The most cold hardy, all Phyllostachys:
Midsize (20'-40')
-aureosulcata & forms (-15F)
-bissetii (-15F)
-nuda (-15F)
Timber (40'+)
-rubromarginata (-5F)
-vivax (-5F)
-henon (0F)
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Given the3 temps they saw in southern Ontario 2 years ago I think it's premature to be raising timber bamboos there what with the unpredictable jetstream wobble of late And given the melting Arctic ice they say it will get even more unpredictable until it gets warmee.

I'd revise those hardiness ratings for eastern Canada as follows:

Zone 7 there are lots of possibilities. Zone 5 (none).
The most cold hardy, all Phyllostachys:
Midsize (20'-40')
-aureosulcata & forms (0F) (-4F top kill)
-bissetii (0F) (-4F top kill)
-nuda

Timber (40'+)
-rubromarginata (likely 0-+5F and prefers hot summers)
-vivax (+5F)
-henon (?)

Have you seen the latest temp readings in southeastern BC in the past few days?
johnw coastal Nova Scotia
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Post by Alan_L »

Ph. atrovaginata not on the list? A few years ago it defoliated (like bissetii and all aureosulcatas) here but leafed back out. To me it's the equal in hardiness of the others you've listed.
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