ID-ing BAMBOO ?

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ID-ing BAMBOO ?

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what steps/proscess should one use to id a unknown bamboo?

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Jmbamboo wrote:With most plants the best way to positively ID them is by their flowers. This is also a great way to ID bamboo but there is a problem - some bamboos only flower every 80 years or so! Given this problem other ways have been developed to positively identify different bamboo species.. Of course some things are obvious such as culm size and color, leaf size, and growth characteristics. This works with many of the Phyllostachys but some of them look very similar and that's when we take a look at the shoots.
http://www.jmbamboo.com/bambooid.htm

This shows some ways in going about identification of


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lkz5ia wrote:
Jmbamboo wrote:With most plants the best way to positively ID them is by their flowers. This is also a great way to ID bamboo but there is a problem - some bamboos only flower every 80 years or so! Given this problem other ways have been developed to positively identify different bamboo species.. Of course some things are obvious such as culm size and color, leaf size, and growth characteristics. This works with many of the Phyllostachys but some of them look very similar and that's when we take a look at the shoots.
http://www.jmbamboo.com/bambooid.htm

This shows some ways in going about identification of
And one way is to have something to compare the bamboo you want ID-ed with something already established--see image below.

Harry Simmons and I have a project going to upload some of the images of dried samples of bamboo plants including including flowers, seeds, culm leaves, leaves, etc from herbariums around the world. Harry is the doing the world traveling and taking the photos. He is emailing the descriptions and images back to me and I'm getting the images and descriptions ready (a little PhotoShop-ing to enhance the features in the images, although Harry is an excellent photographer) for uploading to Bambooweb.info. Once we are finished, I believe we will have something at Bambooweb.info that you find at no other place on the internet. The world's largest bamboo image gallery just keeps getting better all the time.

Here's a big cheer for Harry:
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fantastic roy

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Roy wrote:
lkz5ia wrote:
Jmbamboo wrote:With most plants the best way to positively ID them is by their flowers. This is also a great way to ID bamboo but there is a problem - some bamboos only flower every 80 years or so! Given this problem other ways have been developed to positively identify different bamboo species.. Of course some things are obvious such as culm size and color, leaf size, and growth characteristics. This works with many of the Phyllostachys but some of them look very similar and that's when we take a look at the shoots.
http://www.jmbamboo.com/bambooid.htm

This shows some ways in going about identification of
And one way is to have something to compare the bamboo you want ID-ed with something already established--see image below.

Harry Simmons and I have a project going to upload some of the images of dried samples of bamboo plants including including flowers, seeds, culm leaves, leaves, etc from herbariums around the world. Harry is the doing the world traveling and taking the photos. He is emailing the descriptions and images back to me and I'm getting the images and descriptions ready (a little PhotoShop-ing to enhance the features in the images, although Harry is an excellent photographer) for uploading to Bambooweb.info. Once we are finished, I believe we will have something at Bambooweb.info that you find at no other place on the internet. The world's largest bamboo image gallery just keeps getting better all the time.

Here's a big cheer for Harry:
:wav:

http://www.bambooweb.info/
<img src="http://www.bambooweb.info/images/bamboo/cephvirg1x.jpg" alt="CEPHALOSTACHYUM virgatum ">
harry always has been a great guy...glad to see you two pulling it off..
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Hi Chele, One book I find really helpfull for Id is the Compendium of Chinese bamboo, lists all the Chinese bamboo with a Photo and the botanical description with location grown.


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[quote="Markj"]Hi Chele, One book I find really helpfull for Id is the Compendium of Chinese bamboo, lists all the Chinese bamboo with a Photo and the botanical description with location grown.


Cheers.[/quote

is it out in english yet? i heard someone was working on it?..whats the cost factor?
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I can't even tell my blue socks from my black socks anymore. Don't ask me for I.D. bamboo :lol: :lol: :lol:
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what happened to your great vision?






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I was trying to be funny...I don't even own blue socks... :lol:

I still can see the words. Make them smaller.... :wink:
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Hi Chele, there's two in print now an older one 1988 and the latest 1994, Theres a new one on the way but when :?:

Heres a link,http://www.americanbamboo.org/BooksOnBamboo.html

First book under 'other suggested books'
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Markj wrote:Hi Chele, there's two in print now an older one 1988 and the latest 1994, Theres a new one on the way but when :?:

Heres a link,http://www.americanbamboo.org/BooksOnBamboo.html

First book under 'other suggested books'
ill see if i can find it and what they want for it

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Hopefully Homeland Security will include botanic names in their barcodes on all of our bamboo. That will make life easier. ;)

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I can spot :shock: a bamboo from a mile away. :lol:
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