PolyU Library
Journal Call no.AP8.W56
AuthorAnderson-Ribandeneira, Andrea.
Article TitleIt looks dead, but it's flowering - then dead : local bamboo species stages rare event / Andrea Anderson-Ribandeneira.
Is Part OfWindow ; v.3, no.23, 17 Jun 1994, p.14-15, illus.
AbstractBamboo reporduction has long baffled scientist. Though some of the 1,200 species come into flower annually, many have breaks of a decade or longer, dedicating themselves entirely to vegetative growht. In most cases, bamboo of a given species originating from the same area will bloom simultaneously, even if transplanted far apart.