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- Arundinaria_gigantea abstract "Arundinaria gigantea is a species of bamboo known by the common names giant cane (not to be confused with Arundo donax) and river cane. It is native to the United States, where it occurs in the south-central and southeastern states as far west as Texas and as far north as New York. This species is divided into two subspecies. The subspecies tecta is sometimes treated as a species in its own right, Arundinaria tecta, and is the taxon generally called switch cane. It is very similar to ssp. gigantea, but is often smaller and tends to grow in wetter habitat.This bamboo, which is a species of cane, is a perennial grass with a rounded, hollow stem which can exceed 7 centimetres (2.8 inches) in diameter and grow to a height of 10 metres (33 feet). It grows from a large network of thick rhizomes. The lance-shaped leaves are up to 30 centimeters (12 inches) long and 4 cm (1.6 in) wide. The inflorescence is a raceme or panicle of spikelets measuring 4 to 7 cm (1.6 to 2.8 in) in length. An individual cane has a lifespan of about 10 years. Most reproduction is vegetative as the bamboo sprouts new stems from its rhizome. It rarely produces seeds and it flowers irregularly. Sometimes it flowers gregariously. It and other species of Arundinaria may grow in large monotypic colonies called canebrakes. Canebrakes were once a common feature of the landscape in the southeastern United States, but today it is an endangered ecosystem.This native plant is a member of several plant communities today, generally occurring as a component of the understory or midstory. It grows in pine forests dominated by loblolly, slash, longleaf, and shortleaf pine, and stands of oaks, cypress, ash, and cottonwood. Other plants in the understory include inkberry (Ilex glabra), creeping blueberry (Vaccinium crassifolium), wax myrtle (Morella cerifera), blue huckleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa), pineland threeawn (Aristida stricta), cutover muhly (Muhlenbergia expansa), little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), and toothache grass (Ctenium aromaticum). Cane communities occur on floodplains, bogs, riparian woods, pine barrens and savannas, and pocosins. It grows easily in flooded and saturated soils. It tolerates wildfire, and canebrakes are maintained by a normal fire regime. Some types of non-native bamboos are easily confused with this native cane.Canebrakes declined after European settlement of the American southeast. Factors involved in the decline include the introduction of livestock such as cattle, which eagerly graze on the leaves. The cane was considered a good forage for the animals until overgrazing began to eliminate canebrake habitat. Other reasons for the decline include the conversion of the land for agriculture, and fire suppression.This cane is the food plant for the Southern Pearly Eye, a butterfly. Canebrake is an important habitat for the Swainson's, Hooded, and Kentucky Warblers, and the White-eyed Vireo. The disappearance of the canebrake ecosystem may have contributed to the rarity and possible extinction of the Bachman's Warbler, which was dependent upon it for nesting sites.There are many human uses for the cane. The Cherokee, particularly the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, used and still use this species in basketry. The Cherokee historically maintained canebrakes with cutting and periodic burning, a practice which stopped with the European settlement of the land. The elimination of cane habitat has nearly resulted in the loss of the art of basketmaking, which is important for the economy of the Cherokee today. The cane was also used by groups such as the Cherokee, Seminole, and Choctaw to make medicine, blowguns, bows and arrows, knives, spears, flutes, candles, walls for dwellings, fish traps, sleeping mats, and tobacco pipes.".
- Arundinaria_gigantea class Monocotyledon.
- Arundinaria_gigantea division Flowering_plant.
- Arundinaria_gigantea family Arundinarieae.
- Arundinaria_gigantea family Bamboo.
- Arundinaria_gigantea family Bambuseae.
- Arundinaria_gigantea family Poaceae.
- Arundinaria_gigantea genus Arundinaria.
- Arundinaria_gigantea kingdom Plant.
- Arundinaria_gigantea order Commelinids.
- Arundinaria_gigantea order Poales.
- Arundinaria_gigantea thumbnail Arundinaria_gigantea.jpg?width=300.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageID "34031069".
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageLength "8039".
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageOutDegree "81".
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageRevisionID "681350007".
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Agriculture.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Angiosperms.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Aristida_stricta.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Arundinaria.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Arundinarieae.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Arundinariinae.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Arundo_donax.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Bachmans_Warbler.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Bachmans_warbler.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Bamboo.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Bambuseae.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Bambusodae.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Bambusoideae.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Basket_weaving.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Basketry.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Blowgun.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Bog.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Bow_and_arrow.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Candle.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Cane.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Category:Bamboo_taxa.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Category:Flora_of_Alabama.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Category:Grasses_of_the_United_States.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Cherokee.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Choctaw.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Colony_(biology).
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Commelinids.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Common_name.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Ctenium_aromaticum.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Cypress.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Band_of_Cherokee_Indians.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Ecosystem.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Enodia_portlandia.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Extinction.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Fire_regime.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Fire_suppression.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Floodplain.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Flowering_plant.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Flute.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Fraxinus.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Gaylussacia_frondosa.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Grass.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Gregariousness.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Hooded_Warbler.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Hooded_warbler.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Ilex_glabra.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Inflorescence.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Kentucky_Warbler.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Kentucky_warbler.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Knife.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Life_expectancy.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Livestock.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Monocots.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Monocotyledon.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Morella_cerifera.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Muhlenbergia_expansa.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Myrica_cerifera.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink New_York.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Oak.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Overgrazing.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Panicle.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Pine.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Pine_barrens.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Pinus_echinata.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Pinus_elliottii.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Pinus_palustris.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Pinus_taeda.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Plant.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Plantae.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Poaceae.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Poales.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Pocosin.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Populus_sect._Aigeiros.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Raceme.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Rhizome.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink River.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Savanna.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Schizachyrium_scoparium.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Seminole.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Smoking_pipe_(tobacco).
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Social_animal.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Spear.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Subspecies.
- Arundinaria_gigantea wikiPageWikiLink Swainsons_Warbler.