Talk:Arundo donax

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It's not only used for the Great Highland Bagpipes reeds. There are other bagpipes too that use it. -- viller

[edit] Biomass output

I cleaned up some repeated text at the end and changed the cultivation/uses section to eliminate the reference to bamboo. Bamboo has a long and complex life cycle including a flowering and die off that can occur on long (~30 year or longer) cycles; Arundo just grows and grows. If you take an established stand of either plant and start harvesting, you will indeed get more from the bamboo for the first few years, because of bamboo's larger underground reserves. But in the face of annual or biannual harvesting, the bamboo's subterranean reserves will be depleted, and the Arundo outproduces it in the long term. R.E.S.A. 20:02, 30 March 2007 (UTC)