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It has several common names, including bamboo-leaf oak, [4] Chinese evergreen oak, and Chinese ring-cupped oak. Its Chinese name is 小叶青冈 ; pinyin : xiǎo yè qīng gāng , which means little leaf ring-cupped oak (literally translated as little leaf green ridge tree), in Japan it is called white oak ( 白樫 , shirakashi , not to be ...
The rebuilt Sherman Oaks Galleria, opened in 2002, seen from Ventura and Sepulveda. The mall closed in April 1999 for a major renovation [9] and reopened in 2002 as an open-air center which was quite different from its previous incarnation. [18] The new layout was termed "mixed-use". [19]
Since 2018, the Lee family has served some of L.A.'s top Cantonese barbecue, chile oil and combo plates heaped with grandma-inspired curry and roast meats from a small storefront in downtown's ...
A new Asian restaurant has opened in Carolina Forest, serving Chinese, Japanese and Thai cuisine. Flaming Fin , 154 Sapwood Road, is one of the newest restaurant in the Carolina Forest area.
Bamboo, like wood, is a natural composite material with a high strength-to-weight ratio useful for structures. [19] Bamboo's strength-to-weight ratio is similar to timber, and its strength is generally similar to a strong softwood or hardwood timber. [20] [21] Some bamboo species have displayed remarkable strength under test conditions.
Bamboo shoots. Phyllostachys edulis, the mōsō bamboo, [2] or tortoise-shell bamboo, [2] or mao zhu (Chinese: 毛竹; pinyin: máozhú), (Japanese: モウソウチク), (Chinese: 孟宗竹) is a temperate species of giant timber bamboo native to China and Taiwan and naturalised elsewhere, including Japan where it is widely distributed from south of Hokkaido to Kagoshima. [3]
Phyllostachys nigra, commonly known as black bamboo [2] or purple bamboo (Chinese: 紫竹), is a species of bamboo, native to Hunan Province of China, and is widely cultivated elsewhere. [ 3 ] Growing up to 25 m (82 ft) tall by 30 cm (1 ft) broad, it forms clumps of slender arching canes which turn black after two or three seasons.
Bamboo is a group of woody perennial plants in the true grass family Poaceae. In the tribe Bambuseae, also known as bamboo, there are 91 genera and over 1,000 species. The size of bamboo varies from small annuals to giant timber bamboo. Bamboo evolved 30 to 40 million years ago, after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.