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14     bamboo seed crop
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And the Phyllostachys bambusoides seeds (from the plant in DHJanzen100403.jpg above) fall to the ground in enormous numbers from the huge infrutescences above. An example described from India in the 1800s described a cohort of bamboo the size of the greater city of Philadelphia with all its suburbs, with the ground covered six inches deep in bamboo seeds the size of a small pear. That is a LOT of grain.
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