Palms and Bamboo

There are lots of interesting trees here, many of them palm trees and various types of bamboo trees. This is what we've learned from one of the Naturalists in the Nature Reserve:
- the red ones - These are palms even though they have very bamboo-like trunks. Their common names are red beetlenut palm or lipstick palm.
- the skinny ones - Chinese bamboo.
- the strange-looking bulbous ones - Buddhist bamboo.
- the yellow ones - Yellow Japanese bamboo.
- the big ones - Common bamboo.Read more