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To: iav2
Hah! Wait till the bamboo gets there. That stuff is a serious plague. I've often wondered which of the two would survive an ancounter with the other. They'd probably have some crazy symbiotic relationship.
4 posted on 08/23/2002 11:14:55 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Wait till the bamboo gets there. That stuff is a serious plague.

Why do you have such a hatred for bamboo? There are two major 'types' of bamboo. Running and clumping. Most of the bamboo in the US is of the clumping variety. This includes the bamboo normally sold at commercial growers. Clumping bamboo is easily controllable since, as the name implies, grows by increasing the diameter of the grove. It can be controlled by simply cutting the new shoots as they show up around the perimeter of the grove. No different that pruning a tree.

Running bamboo sends out 'runners' away from the plant which pop out of the ground at different distances from the plant It can be a problem depending on species, but it is not commonly sold. Most of the people growing it and/or selling it know how to control it. It's spreading can easily be stopped through barriers which restrict the travel of the roots. Shoots that pop up can also easily be killed by simply cutting them.

Based off the Kudzu article, they are completely different animals.

14 posted on 08/23/2002 12:39:22 PM PDT by killjoy
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