Martin Crawford writes in "Creating a forest garden": All bamboo have
edible shoots. So nothing about toxicity.
cheers
Thomas
2012/6/2 Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>
> I have a number of edible bamboos which I have been harvesting for a few
> years. There is one type of bamboo a neighbor gave to me and of which I
> don’t know the name. Since I don’t know the name I can’t check if it is
> edible or not.
>
> The problem is that I don’t know what it means if a bamboo is “not
> edible”. Does it mean that it is poisonous or does it just mean that it
> doesn’t taste very good or that it is too hard to eat? I tried a bit raw
> today and it didn’t taste much different from the edible ones I have.
> Would it be safe to eat?
>
> Thanks,
> Dieter
>
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