Bisset bamboo
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The Bisset bamboo ( Phyllostachys bissetii ) is a bamboo - type of the genus Phyllostachys . Due to its winter hardiness, it is popular as an ornamental plant in Europe.
description
The Bisset bamboo has stalks that are 5 to 6 meters high and about 2 centimeters in diameter. The internodes are initially reddish green, later green to gray-green. They are up to 25 centimeters long, usually bare and floured white. The lowest section can be rough and covered with short, erect hair. The wall thickness is about 4 millimeters. The upper part of the nodes protrudes a little further than the lower part (the leaf sheath scar). The straw sheaths are dark to light green, slightly reddish in color, unspotted or covered with white stripes or very small brown spots. They are rarely hairy near deep-lying nodes. Usually there are sickle-shaped, green to reddish-green ears , bristles may be missing. The arched and ciliate ligules are reddish and 1 to 2 millimeters long. The blade blades are upright and colored deep green or slightly reddish. The leaf shape of the stalk leaves is narrowly triangular or triangular-lanceolate. There are usually two leaves per terminal branch. Young leaves have auricles and bristles that fall off later. The ligule are slightly protruding, the leaf blades are 7 to 11 inches long and 1.2 to 1.6 inches wide.
distribution
The Bisset bamboo comes from Sichuan in central China and from Zhejiang .
etymology
The name refers to the American botanist David Bisset, who introduced this bamboo to the USA in 1941.
Culture and use
In China, support poles are made from the stalks. Utensils such as baskets are made from the stalks cut into strips. The sprouts are edible, also raw as a salad.
The plant is hardy and can withstand temperatures of −20 ° C to −25 ° C, it is the hardest phyllostachys and is used as an ornamental plant in Central Europe.
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literature
- Simon Crouzet, Oliver Colin: Bamboo . Österreichischer Agrarverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-7040-1952-6 , p. 60 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Phyllostachys bissetii. In: Flora of China. www.eFloras.org, accessed on February 22, 2009 (English).
- ↑ a b c Crouzet et al .: Bamboo .
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Phyllostachys bissetii. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved August 23, 2018.
