The Legend Of Phyllostachys Parvafolia and the Giant Panda

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The Legend Of Phyllostachys Parvafolia and the Giant Panda

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I would like to hear some tales if anyone out there is willing to offer there
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I have never heard of that legend. Which is quite weird, because I have a Ph.D. in Legendology. Could you rephrase the question.






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Giant Pandas aren't really that big, and Ph. parvifolia is a P. whittakerian myth of giant proportions :!: :wink:
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Aw shucks... :cry:
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OK. I'll start the story.

Once upon a time not to long ago there lived a Giant Panda Bear named P. Theodore Whittaker(P. Teddy Bear for short). P. Teddy lived in a grove of giant magical bamboo( P. whitt for short). It was said that this was the bamboo of which legends were made :shock: It was said by some that this was THE bamboo of the north. It was magic :!: This was the bamboo of which small oriental children could only dream. This was the bamboo of the Legend of P. parvfolia and the Giant Panda :roll:
So settle in children and you shall hear of the midnight tale of Paul Whitta Ker ..........................
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:lol: :lol: David,

All you need is the illustrations and you've got a bestseller.
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Well start drawing. :) I think my inability to obtain this magic bamboo has fulminated into sour grapes and sarcasm :(
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What I have understood from a more mythical standpoint, is that this bamboo was not a cultivated species of chinese human origin. I believe many of the assumptions have hurt the fact that the first great explorers that cultivated this species was an unknown group of les schtroumpfs that migrated there in the early a.d.
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Here's help with lkz5ia's last statement.....
The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs in French) are a fictional race of small blue creatures who live in a forest somewhere in Europe. The Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced smurfs to the world, but English-speakers perhaps know them best through the animated television series from Hanna-Barbera Productions.
Anybody who has a Parvy in the US ready to send me a division??
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Rick, I had two parvifolia and was going to give one to you, but adminBill and NeedmoreBrad each stole one of mine! :evil: 8)
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The legend is yet to unfold:
Magnificent, green-thumbed Admiral Bill, (aka Giant Panda) soon possessed countless baby parvi, so many in fact that he felt compelled to send them out to all his bambooweb friends. His kindness became legendary, and now every flowering event marks a huge celebration in his honor.
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I think we should give him a national holiday :!: :lol: :lol:
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or maybe a radio show....
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What's the better holiday?
  1. holiday set aside for guy who supposedly found our country
    or
  2. holiday set aside for guy who supposedly populated the States with Parvifolia
I dunno, that's a tuff one. Either way I don't get the day off work.
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