Waitsap muk, Kwongning chuk…
Might sound Greek to most of us, but you’d have to be either an expert in early 20th century Cantonese or a bamboo fly rod nut to know that this is Cantonese for “for wood, Waisap, for bamboo, Kwongning.” This little jingle lead a young botanist from the US Department of Agriculture, Floyd McClure, to a place up the Sui river to find a grove of what the growers called “Tea Stick Bamboo”–the Angler’s Bamboo. He ended up calling it Arundinaria amabilis, “the Lovely Bamboo.”
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