The Square Bamboo | Nature

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ABSTRACT THE cylindrical form of the stems of grasses is so universal a feature in the family that the report of the existence in China and Japan of a bamboo with manifestly four-angled stems, has generally been considered a myth, or, at any rate, as founded on some diseased or abnormal condition of a species having stems, when properly developed, circular in section. ARTICLE PDF Authors * W. T. THISELTON DYER View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE DYER, W. _The Square Bamboo_ . _Nature_ 32, 391–392 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032391d0 Download citation * Issue Date: 27 August 1885 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/032391d0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Copy to clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative

ABSTRACT THE cylindrical form of the stems of grasses is so universal a feature in the family that the report of the existence in China and Japan of a bamboo with manifestly four-angled


stems, has generally been considered a myth, or, at any rate, as founded on some diseased or abnormal condition of a species having stems, when properly developed, circular in section.


ARTICLE PDF Authors * W. T. THISELTON DYER View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS


ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE DYER, W. _The Square Bamboo_ . _Nature_ 32, 391–392 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032391d0 Download citation * Issue Date: 27 August 1885 * DOI:


https://doi.org/10.1038/032391d0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not currently


available for this article. Copy to clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative