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Offline cowboy

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Switch cane?
« on: December 10, 2007, 06:46:13 pm »
Here is one stick my brother brought up from the coast. It was all dead and shrivled up, but with the rain it sprang back to life so I stuck it in the ground :).
 joewaco78: This is what I was talking about in the bamboo arra post - hopefully somebody can possitively ID it as switch can, then I'll be set for life ;D. Brother say's it's everywhere around where he lives south of Houston (Laporte). C'mon Steve - give me the good news ;D ;D ;D.

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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2007, 07:08:30 pm »
Way to go Paul importing invasive species for your own pleasure ;)
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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2007, 08:37:05 pm »
   Looks like it to me,but wait for the experts to weigh in.It's not native to Fl.
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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2007, 09:47:05 pm »
Hard to say for sure from one sprig. It looks generally like switch cane, but I've never seen switch cane with big long branches like that on it. Whatever it is, it looks like it would make good arrows.
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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2007, 10:43:30 pm »
  Paul,I just pulled the end off of some I have growing,looks like Japanese arrow bamboo to me.I'll post a picture of mine tomorrow.
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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2007, 10:45:44 pm »
.................Looks like Eddie said ta me Paul......bob
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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2007, 12:23:05 am »
I'd say its not switch cane but could be bambusa with the longer inter nodes. Does it grow in clumps or is it a spreading type. Whatever it is, looks like it would make arrows.  ;)      Pat
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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2007, 10:05:06 am »
Dadburnit - I thought I had er this time, hehe. Well if it ain't switch cane, but is Jap arrow cane - that'll have to do :). It's thick walled and the nodes are over a foot apart and it's straight and stiff. don't know if it's spread out or bunched up, will have to get a truck load when I go down around X-mas - and some roots for the invasion ;). Eddie: that'll be good if you could post a pick of the real thing....
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Offline Mechslasher

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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2007, 01:46:17 pm »
it's not river cane or japanese arrow boo.  too many leaves for river cane and too small a leaf for jap boo.  it could be a tonkin or korean species.
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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2007, 06:03:48 pm »
  Paul,Here's some pictures of arrow boo.

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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2007, 07:00:48 pm »
I am watching closely.. Seeing if I can find anything like that around here...
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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2007, 08:49:50 pm »
Tell ya what - I'll take picture's when I'm down there, maybe somebody will recognize it :). Thanks Eddie: That looks like some good stuff - big leafy tropical lookin stuff. My search has only just begun - I'll find it soon enough, hehe ;).
 Hey joe - never stop lookin..
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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2007, 09:00:55 pm »
Does it grow in the snow eddie? ;) ;D Lucky bas*%^$
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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2007, 09:09:51 pm »
  It snows in Japan. ???
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Re: Switch cane?
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2007, 10:54:23 pm »
I like lookin for stuff.. Just had to be sure of what I was lookin for! Hahaha
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