Feedback request: Pseudosasa japonica (K001189967)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #402700

Taxon:	Poaceae: Pseudosasa japonica (Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino ex Nakai ("Arrow Bamboo")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Pseudosasa japonica (Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino ex Nakai ("Arrow Bamboo")
Collection date:	1911
Locality:	Cultivated [perhaps Gamble's garden at Highfield, Liss, Hampshire]
ex herb:	James Sykes Gamble
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001189967
Image: © Kew
notes:	Bambusa laydeckeri [on green tag] In 1911 I ordered from Barr's two bamboos - on arrival they proved to be both Arundinaria japonica so I preserve specimens in case of future reference (Messrs. Barr fully admitted the mistake & returned the money) but the incident shows that one has to be very careful, others might not be so honest. [Barr's Nurseries in Thornborough, Buckingham]

Documented by xmhcman on 2^nd December 2015.

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date	user	change
02/12/2015	xmhcman	Deleted note: In 1911 I ordered from Barr's two bamboos - on arrival they proved to be both Arundinaria japonica so I preserve specimens in case of future reference (Messrs. Barr fully admitted the mistake & returned the money) but the incident shows that one has to be very careful, others might not be so honest. [Barr's Nurseries in Thornborough, Buckingham]
02/12/2015	xmhcman	Added note: Bambusa laydeckeri [on green tag] In 1911 I ordered from Barr's two bamboos - on arrival they proved to be both Arundinaria japonica so I preserve specimens in case of future reference (Messrs. Barr fully admitted the mistake & returned the money) but the incident shows that one has to be very careful, others might not be so honest. [Barr's Nurseries in Thornborough, Buckingham]
02/12/2015	xmhcman	Deleted locality: , [perhaps Gamble's garden at Highfield, Liss, Hampshire]
02/12/2015	xmhcman	Added locality: (cultivated) , [perhaps Gamble's garden at Highfield, Liss, Hampshire]

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xmhcman wrote

Gamble (if this is his handwriting) reports that Arundinaria japonica was not what he wanted Barr's Nurseries (Thornborough, Buckingham) to supply when he ordered bamboos. If he grew these on in his garden they should be 'cultivated Highfield, Liss, Hampshire'.