Bamboo tree flowering

[raghu ananth]

 

Bamboo trees are flowering for the past two months here in Chandagal village. Some of the trees are more than 70 years old. Again. the  trees which were chopped 6 months months before were still  bearing flowers. 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

 

We had seen earlier in feb 08, a bamboo tree flowering in one of the forest dept. nurseries in Yelahanka, Bangalore. (Posted in earthsublime )

 

Regards

Raghu

 

Chandagal

07-Apr-2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[J.M. Garg]

In an earlier discussion on Indiantreepix at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/f414ebfe5168ea99/b79cc3cda695c1f8?lnk=gst&q=Bamboo+tree+#b79cc3cda695c1f8 & http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/17a5fd526eeb4e77/fdf102735b518e95?lnk=gst&q=Bamboo+tree+#fdf102735b518e95,

 

Ingalhalikar ji clarified as below:

"Dear Mr. Garg
Presently Bambusa bambusa var. arundinacea is flowering. The flowers are in
racemes and filaments are free. The other bamboo flowered in 2004. The
flowers were in interrupted round heads. Regards.
Shrikant Ingalhalikar"

I think it's same as Bambusa brundinacea with details as per link:http://www.ayushveda.com/herbs/bambusa-arundinacea.htm & http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Bambusa_arundinacea.html

 

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[Mahadeswara Swamy]

In Chennai, one can see flowering bamboos in Guindy National Park.   I have photographed the flowering bamboo about  2 weeks back.
Dr. Mahadeswara swamy

----- Original Message ----
From: raghu ananth <ragh...@yahoo.com>
To: indian...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, 12 April, 2008 9:46:12 AM
Subject: [Indiantreepix] Bamboo tree flowering

 

Bamboo trees are flowering for the past two months here in Chandagal village. Some of the trees are more than 70 years old. Again. the  trees which were chopped 6 months months before were still  bearing flowers. 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

 

We had seen earlier in feb 08, a bamboo tree flowering in one of the forest dept. nurseries in Yelahanka, Bangalore. (Posted in earthsublime )

 

Regards

Raghu

 

Chandagal

07-Apr-2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Kiran Srivastava]

Where is Chandagal please??

 

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Kiran Srivastava

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From: indian...@googlegroups.com [mailto:indian...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of raghu ananth
Sent: 12 April 2008 09:46
To: indian...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Indiantreepix] Bamboo tree flowering

 

 

Bamboo trees are flowering for the past two months here in Chandagal village. Some of the trees are more than 70 years old. Again. the  trees which were chopped 6 months months before were still  bearing flowers. 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

[raghu ananth]

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

                     

Most of the bamboo trees that were flowering last summer (Apr 08) were found dead. The stems had turned black.

 

 There is a myth that when bamboo flowers, it signals the onset of famine.  May be in the current context, it could be 'Recession`!

http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/517cbe18f6e4adb/ab35f6a14b193e84?lnk=gst&q=bamboo+tree+flowering#ab35f6a14b193e84

 

(There are several species of Bamboo and this behaviour may not be generalized. )

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From: Mahadeswara Swamy <swamy...@yahoo.com>
To: treepix Indian <indian...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, 12 April, 2008 5:00:24 PM
Subject: [Indiantreepix] Re: Bamboo tree flowering

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[Yazdy Palia]

It is nice to know that nobody is picking bamboo seeds. Bamboo flowers
once in 13 years or thereabouts. Once it flowers, the clump perishes.
Stories that it is a harbinger of famine are myths or sometimes
coincidences. The areas should once again blossom with these beautiful
part of nature.
Regards
Yazdy Palia.

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