giant cane
cane reed
Arundinaria gigantea

NOBODY can remember the exact moment the giant cane, Arundo donax, went from being a nuisance to a state of emergency, but the day it lifted up a bridge in Norco, Calif., might do for starters.

Several Siberian hamlets appeared from time to time among the giant canes.

The pipes of the pan flute are typically made from bamboo or giant cane; other materials used include wood, plastic, metal and ivory.

Coyote likewise made a boat for himself, by gnawing down a giant cane and stopping it with gum.

The mouthpiece of the tenor saxophone is very similar to that of the clarinet, an approximately wedge-shaped tube, open along one face and covered in use by a thin strip of material prepared from the stem of the giant cane (Arundo donax) commonly known as a reed.

Instead of a giant cane appearing from the wings and pulling off miscreant performers, we have the orchestra, striking up random bits of music from whatever film just won, forcing the winners to get the hell off the stage.

The plant is "expected to become operational in 2012 and will use a variety of locally sourced feedstocks, beginning with wheat straw and Arundo donax, a perennial giant cane".

Arundinaria gigantea is a species of bamboo known by the common names giant cane (not to be confused with Arundo donax) and river cane.

A middling stream ran past it, dropping down a small cataract and flowing off down the valley into what looked from a distance like a huge thicket of bamboo-a canebrake, it was called, the leafy giant canes glowing dusty gold in the sun of early afternoon.