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Author: cho
Date: 2000-12-30 01:36
Hi.....
Did you ever heard about chinese cane?
And where can I buy this cane.....?
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Author: ron b
Date: 2000-12-30 03:43
Hi, Cho -
No. Where did you hear about it?
To the best of my limited knowledge Arundo Donax (tall cane) grows wild in many places all over the world - including China. In some regions it's cultivated for musical instrument reeds and for making furniture and crafts.
ron b
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Author: Anji
Date: 2000-12-30 16:23
I think this stuff comes from Sichuan province in the Panda protected areas.
The availability of Australian or Argentine cane may be greater.
I would also wonder about the quality control of any but tube cane coming out of the PRC.
anji
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-01-03 00:21
Hoo boy! Shows what an innocent little hoax will do. Last April Fool's Day, I put up a joke posting about pandas eating bamboo and destroying our source of reeds -- kill all pandas was the motto.
No good deed goes unpunished. While arundo donax may and probably does grow in China, forget about the pandas.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Anji
Date: 2001-01-03 00:43
So you're the bad monkey.
Seriously, what would prevent the Chinese from making reeds from young bamboo? This stuff is tremendously prolific in the Sichuan highlands.
I know they're growing decent coffee on Hainan island, why not cane for reeds?
anji
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