Culms - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 33957 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Dendrocalamus strictus | Entry Book Number | 22.1906 | |
| Artefact Name | Culms | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Burma | TDWG Region | Burma | ||
| Parts Held | Culms | Geography Description | Burma, Asia-Tropical, Indo-China, Upper Burma, Pyinmana | ||
| Uses | CulmsUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Gamble JS | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Muriel E | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Letter 'Some two months ago (July) I noticed some cut Bamboo (D.strictus) 10 miles north of Pyinmana with double hollows on their upper ends and since then I have investigated the specimens. The lower portions of the culms are of the o, rdinary type of D.strictus found growing in fairly moist forest but in some cases a partition is formed longitudinally some 15 to 20 feet from the ground. The partition appears to commence as a filament growing longitudinally between the nodes sometimes, straight and in other instances developing spirally. This is succeeded by a straight partition across the bamboo, which thickens in higher internodes until the upper portion of the bamboo becomes quite solid. There is nothing in the external appearance of, the bamboo to indicate the double hollow. The sketches accompanying (missing) this note may help to explain the appearance of the partition. Specimens of Bamboo with partitions are not infrequent in forest some 10 or 12 miles north of Pyinmara and could, be obtained for any person interested in them. I have sent some specimens to Mr Gamble (to whom I had written when I first found the Double Barrelled Bamboo and who tells me that he had never seen an instance of such growth during his long experience in I, ndia), to the Director of the Imperial Forest School, Dehra Dun, and to the Director of the Burma Forest School. (Indian Forester Vol 29.507 (1904)) | ||||