Giant Bamboo - Bambusa arundinacea - 10 Seeds Desert Rose nutritious edible

nutritious edible

It is often pickled and used as an ingredient in sandwiches

but grows on a stem above the ground and has a milder flavor

seed and embryo which looks like in all details to Astrophytum capricorne

lovely pink flowers in dense heads in Summer

Giant Bamboo - Bambusa arundinacea - 10 Seeds Desert Rose nutritious edibleTall woody bamboo, stems thorny, numerous, tufted, up to 40 m tall, curving at top; branches numerous, internodes 30 to 45 cm long, prominent, bearing in lower parts of stems dense half whorls of stiff, naked, horizontal branches, armed with recurved, stout spines; lowest nodes rooting; stem sheaths leathery, orange yellow when young, hairy outside, shining and ribbed inside, 30 to 45 cm long; blade triangular, glabrous, covered with a brown felt of