Tropical Zone Gardening: Tropical Plant Propagation, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Our native bamboo (an endemic), Bambusa arnhemica, flowers and produces seed after about 80 years and then dies. The big flowering occured about 3 years ago, and the last stragglers flowered this wet season. Little kids now will be very old before they get a chance to see a flowering.

I've got a fine, climbing bamboo at home and Dendrocalamus asper that I've planted. There were about 4 or 5 other species on the property but don't know the species. One is huge but useless as a timber, very brittle when dry. But makes a lot of noise in the wind as it's very tall, about 15 metres. This is a photo with a 10-11 foot size thrown in for comparison.