In a message dated 12/9/2004 6:31:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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But surely this is not a true bamboo?  A quick search found that it is also
known as Japanese Bamboo, False Bamboo, Mexican Bamboo etc, but it
I don't know what kind it is.  It grows up to about seven feet tall, purple
to red tint in the stalk.  When I lived on the Connecticut shoreline, my yard
was being taken over by it. I would mowed it down (not an easy task) and it
grows back one foot tall the next day.  Some of the swamper areas around here are
loaded with it.  I've dried it out to make tomato stakes.  It is a very
sturdy bamboo.

Jim Hock
Wethersfield,  CT

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