Claim · model-written summary
For more sustainable harvesting of culms for basket-making, the authors recommend focusing on tangles in tree crowns harvested in the dry season with minimal flowering or fruiting.
- Taxon
- Flagellaria guineensisFlagellaria guineensist0
- Outcome
- more sustainable harvesting of culms for basket-makinge0
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Verbatim
t0“Flagellaria guineensis”
e0“more sustainable harvesting of culms for basket-making included focusing on tangles in tree crowns to be harvested during the dry season with minimal flowering or fruiting”
Title
N. Tshaduli; C.J. Geldenhuys; P.W. Chirwa South African Journal of Botany 2018. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2018.05.026
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Observation Relatively few flowers and fruits of F. guineensis were seen, in Mtambalala only in the rainy season and in Bulolo in the rainy and dry seasons.
- Observation Regeneration of F. guineensis (seedlings, shoots from rhizomes and at growing tips) was constant over the 12-month study period in both forests.
- Observation The authors suggest the climbing bamboo was in an active vegetative growth stage but not in a reproductive stage during the study period.
- Association Culm diameter and culm length of F. guineensis differed significantly among forest stand conditions in Mnenga, Mtambalala and Manubi Forests.
- Association Cluster diameter of F. guineensis differed significantly among forest stand conditions in the first results sentence (the later sentence states it did not).
- Association The number of culms per cluster of F. guineensis did not differ significantly among forest stand conditions (P > 0.05).
- Observation Mean cluster diameter was highest in Manubi (185.5 cm).
- Observation Mean culm diameter was highest in Manubi (1.0 cm).
- Observation Mean cluster diameter was lowest in Mnenga (64.1 cm).
- Observation Mean culm diameter was lowest in Mnenga (0.8 cm).
- Observation The longest culms were recorded in Manubi (11.1 m).
- Association Culm numbers were not significantly related to cluster diameter in F. guineensis.
- Association Culm length was not related to culm diameter in F. guineensis.
- Association Flowering and fruiting of F. guineensis differed between seasons and sites.
- Recommendation The authors recommend productive cultivation of this climbing bamboo outside the forest.