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  1. ID of invasive bamboo

  2. 14/04/2017 4:27:11 p.m. Phil Bendle

    This plant has has covered a coastal hill on the edge of Port Taranaki. It the hill that the Ocean View Parade runs along side.

  3. 19/04/2017 4:52:09 p.m. Peter de Lange

    For bamboo identification you need to show:

    1. The basal bracts (where the culm emerges from the soil)
    2. Note whether it is rhizomatous or not
    3. Show the 'cane' - taking care to depict if it has a groove, if it is entire, and also what the cane looks like where it braches
    4. The fully expanded leaves
    5. Note the height

    From this image I cannot work out what bamboo this.

  4. 20/04/2017 5:55:18 p.m. Phil Bendle

    Hi Peter.
    More info on that bambbo. There is no grove at all, Height about 5 m but the tops are heavy and they droop. It must be a running species, new one are spouting on the outside of the main area. Have attached a few more photos. Its a shame one one photo per posting. It makes it hard for you to identify with only one photo.

  5. 20/04/2017 5:58:32 p.m. Phil Bendle

    The edge of group

  6. 20/04/2017 5:59:55 p.m. Phil Bendle

    A young cane

  7. 20/04/2017 6:01:24 p.m. Phil Bendle

    The nodal ring

  8. 20/04/2017 6:03:02 p.m. Phil Bendle

    ring

  9. 20/04/2017 6:03:42 p.m. Phil Bendle

    Branches

  10. 20/04/2017 6:04:20 p.m. Phil Bendle

    More branches

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