Bamboo seeds .. delicious tree for the primates

[raghu ananth]

Monkeying around with Bamboo seeds

We might have changed our food diets, but our ancestors have apparently not forgotten the joys of chomping on these delicious Bamboo seeds.  This year again, the bamboo flowers are blooming in riotous profusion and  the entire monkey troupe (Bonnet Macaque -Macaca radiata) have stayed put amongst the branches and the shades of the Bamboo along the Muleho`le river banks - which remains cool even in the hot summer afternoons.

Mule Ho`le River  (meaning -corner river, along the Bandipura forest fringe) 

Bandipura forest, Gundlupet, Karnataka

Photo date: 29 May 2011

Earlier eflora discussions on bamboo flowering

1. Bamboo tree flowering

May 2009 Chandagal, Mysore :  This May, I saw Bamboo seeds lying scattered on the ground .. Nowadays, no one here picks these seeds for they have forgotten that they used to be cooked during times when famine struck. 

The stories on the famine when bamboo flowers, rat menace still prevails in the localites mindset.The fallen seeds seemed to be collected and cooked for food, long time back in this place.

more....

https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/517cbe18f6e4adb/ab35f6a14b193e84?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=bamboo+tree+raghu#ab35f6a14b193e84

2. When The Bamboo Flowers! 

-SUBRATA MAHAPATRA

https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/825c1135d5a163fb/0a03457667b292fd?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=bamboo+tree+raghu#0a03457667b292fd

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Bot. name please.

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