"… the massive amounts of seeds produced by huge canebrakes in flowering events fed the passenger pigeon flocks. Likewise the Carolina parakeet was also dependent on canebrakes, and the extinct Bachman's warbler was a #canebrake specialist. The destruction of canebrakes could be responsible for why these birds went #extinct. …"

canebrake is North America's native #bamboo and it's endangered. https://www.tumblr.com/rayckeith/785098931135709184

#Bamboo is remarkable: fast #growing, #ecologically significant, and #economically valuable.
Wang et al. explore the #genomics, #biotechnology, and #molecular mechanisms behind its growth, #development, and #stress responses. https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13909
@wileyplantsci
#PlantScience #botany #review

Most of my Chinese paintings are mounted in the traditional Asian style as silk-framed scrolls.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/bamboo-chinese-style-two-no-cally-birgit-moldenhauer.html

#Ink #InkPainting #ChinesePainting #Watercolor #ChineseArt
#BuyIntoArt #JapaneseArt #Art
#Painting #Sumie #Kunst #BadEms #Malerei #BuyIntoArt
#AYearForArt #Bamboo

Wet #bamboo poles in #Yangon, #Myanmar. A daily photo from my archives.
bewarethecheese.com #photography #travel #asia #southeastasia

Bamboo has been an important and meaningful subject for painting during many periods in Chinese history.

I just love to paint bamboo!

https://pixels.com/featured/bamboo-chinese-art-two-bw-no-cally-birgit-moldenhauer.html

https://www.pictorem.com/630538/Bamboo%20Chinese%20Art%20%20-%20two%20%20-%20bw%20-%20no%20Cally.html

#architecture #bamboo
Bamboo is a woody grass that is known to be the fastest-growing plant in the world. it has become a popular material choice in architecture and design projects because of its sustainable qualities and hardwearing characteristics as it has a higher compressive strength than concrete or wood, and rivals the tensility of steel.

https://www.designboom.com/tag/bamboo-architecture-and-design/

This is a painting in traditional Chinese free style (Xie Yi) with ink on rice paper. I love black and white bamboo paintings.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/bamboo-chinese-style-one-no-cally-birgit-moldenhauer.html

China's going to be fine.

"In China, people burned crude oil and gas for heat and light as early as 500 B.C. By the fourth century A.D., they were drilling for these natural resources and transporting it via bamboo pipes."

#HannahOsborne, 2024

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/the-165-year-reign-of-oil-is-coming-to-an-end-but-will-we-ever-be-able-to-live-without-it

‘I’m an expert – gardeners must watchout for plant that’s UK’s next Japanese knotweed’ https://www.allforgardening.com/1303421/im-an-expert-gardeners-must-watchout-for-plant-thats-uks-next-japanese-knotweed/ #bamboo #garden #gardener #gardening #GardeningAdvice #InvasivePlants #JapaneseKnotweed #plants

New Natural History Miscellany Note available ahead of print! "Poles Apart: The Structure and Composition of the Bird Community in Bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya" by Srinivasan et al.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735417

bamboo reaching high

into the verdant canopy

king of the grasses

#haiku
#bamboo
#dailyhaikuprompt
(verdant)

How long should bamboo cuttings be dried in the sun, so they can be used in #gardening projects _without re-sprouting_?

Are they dead within days or rather weeks?

Update: Various internet post recommend immediate replanting for propagation, so normal drying seems sufficient to prevent exactly that

jasně, jen taková trochu větší tráva...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/96541566@N06/54516637557/
#Portugal #Azores #SaoMiguel #travel #bamboo #nature #forest #Furnas #garden