Once-in-a-century dwarf bamboo flowering linked to rodent population outburst and disease outbreak. Findings offer clues on how forest ecosystem changes affect organisms that live there ...

Some plants may look appealing at first, but become costly landscaping headaches. These common choices can be invasive, messy ...

The large-scale flowering and seeding of dwarf bamboo is a rare event. This plant phenomenon is called masting, and the next one is not expected for more than 100 years.

Versatile and attractive year-round, heavenly bamboo has carved out its place in Northwest gardens. Several dwarf varieties in particular fit just fine in the small urban garden.

An unseasonably cold spring wind blasts in from the north shaking all before it. Oak trunks tremble; mast-like young white birches sway alarmingly and ineffectively rattle their branches at it.

An event that occurs only once every 120 years, the large-scale flowering, seeding, and dying of dwarf bamboo (Sasa borealis), has been found to provide ideal breeding conditions for Japanese ...

Jesus Mora, the grower at Sebastopol's Bamboo Sourcery for 20 years, said that in the past couple of years, some of his dwarf ground-cover bamboos, including the dwarf white-stripe, have started ...

On Sept. 18, 2009, during the eighth World Bamboo Congress, the participants officially declared Sept. 18 as World Bamboo Day to coincide with a renowned Nobel laureate and India’s former ...

The rare, once-in-a-century large-scale flowering of a dwarf bamboo species may trigger a population boom of the Japanese field mice, leading to forestry damage and disease outbreaks, according to a ...

Bamboo Is About To Flower For The First Time In 120 Years. It Could Be A Disaster Every 120 years it flowers, ... or dwarf ramet production apparent," the team added in their paper.

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