Bamboo (at a ‘node’)

“Bamboo” is a “tribe” of flowering perennial evergreen plants in the [true] grass family “Poaceae”, subfamily “Bambusoideae”, tribe “Bambuseae”. This particular plant, “Phyllostachys nigra”, is growing *outside* the campus greenhouse.

Genus page at PhytoImages, http://www.phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Phyllostachys&rank=genus

Photo taken outside the SIUC Plant Biology Greenhouse, http://www.plantbiology.siu.edu/facilities/plant-biology-facilities/greenhouse/index.php

1 year ago (“Golden lace cactus”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-03-27
2 years ago (“A solitary row”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-03-27
3 years ago (“CA 10118”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-03-27

[MaryBeth Dailey]

I love the focus and the colors here! I wish I had a bamboo forest to walk through and shoot. My husband and I went to this lake weekend in North carolina...to see his high school friends a la The Big Chill type thing. He had not seen them or talked to them since high school. I walked with my camera from the house one day, and there was a small stand of bamboo. It was fun to shoot. This pic you took of it is amazing.

[Thom Mitchell]

@espyetta I would have had to have had a ladder to get the tops!

[Danette Thompson]

Very interesting pov here.