MBC | Madake Bamboo Collection
The Madake Bamboo Collection (MBC) is a private bamboo plants collection started on 2006 to make researches on giant timber bamboo species, both from subtropical and from temperate latitudes, as resource of timber and fibers for sustainable wooden architecture. The collection has been enriched along the years with species from all over the world and based exclusively on natural cultivars completely excluding plants from laboratory reproduction, to guarantee the best characteristics as reported in scientific literature and to experiment the real potentialities both of hardness and of aesthetical beauty. This way, the MBC has become among the most specialized and genetically original bamboo collections in Europe, internationally recognized with publications by the European Bamboo Society (EBS) and by the American Bamboo Society (ABS). All plants, both in pots and in open field, are grown without any industrial chemical fertilization, just using natural composts based on biomass from oaks and bamboo, with an extraordinary growth result and cold and drought resistanc due to richness of natural organic nitrogen, carbon and silicon. Just to give an idea, some subtropical bamboo species that do not survive to cold winters close to -8°C and already around -4°C they lose leaves, with our compost they survived to -12°C with leaves up and green. If you are looking for extraordinary quality bamboo plants, for your luxury garden or for starting a high-quality timber bamboo plantation, contact us, our mission is to make the world more green through the best bamboo plants.
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Bamboo World List
The following Bamboo World List is the result of years of research and cross-data analysis from the most authoritative scientific literature and private collections all around the world, correcting old and wrong names, recognizing synonyms, adding new types. Read the first name as the genus, the second name as the species, the third name as the subspecies, the fourth name as the variety or the sub-subspecies, the fifth name as the cultivar or the sub-variety. I used the symbol “-“ in case of multiple names used to identify the same level of botanical classification as for example Phyllostachys Bambusoides Castillonis-Inversa Variegata = genus Phyllostachys, species Bambusoides, subspecies Castillonis-Inversa, variety Variegata. I used the symbol “/” for the most common synonyms as for example Bambusa Arundinacea/Bambos = Bambusa Arundinacea synonym Bambusa Bambos, or Dendrocalamus Asper Betung-Hitam/Black = Dendrocalamus Asper Betung-Hitam synonym Dendrocalamus Asper Black. The symbol “x” means cross-pollination and I mean cross-pollinations as subspecies of the mother species generates seeds, as for example my Pleioblastus Distichus MBC/Mary-Rose generated at my Madake Bamboo Collection through the natural cross-pollination Pleioblastus Distuchus x Pleioblastus Chino Pumilus with seedlings generated by seeds from Pleioblastus Distichus and I prefer to classify Pleioblastus Distichus MBC as a subspecies of the species Pleioblastus Distichus rather than a new species. Species under collection at the MBC are listed with data.
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For references: “Bamboo World List © by Thomas Allocca (2016), www.wooden-architecture.org”.