High yield bamboo plantation
AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worlwide, Inc.
InventorsRichard Louis Underhill, Thomas Gerard Shannon, Geoffrey Fenn Calow
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Abstract
The present invention provides high yield mixed species bamboo plantations and methods for planting the same. The invention comprises a method of planting two or more bamboo species in alternating rows or in other configurations. In some embodiments, the present invention provides a plantation comprising two or more bamboo species that are substantially uniform in regards to height, circumference and density at maturity are well suited for use in pulp and paper applications.
Claims20
A bamboo plantation comprising an intercropped first species of bamboo and second species of bamboo, wherein the first bamboo is planted at a density of at least about 50 plantlets per acre and the second bamboo is planted at a density of at least about 50 plantlets per acre, wherein the first and second bamboo species are different.
A method of planting a bamboo plantation comprising the steps of planting a first bamboo species in a first row;
- and planting a second bamboo species in a second row, wherein the first and second rows are spaced apart from one another from about 2.5 to about 7 meters.
A method of planting a bamboo plantation comprising the steps of planting a first species of bamboo in spaced apart relation to one-another thereby defining an inter-row space and planting a second species of bamboo planted within the inter-row space, whereby no first species of bamboo is adjacent to another first species of bamboo.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.