新西兰竹子协会（New Zealand Bamboo Society，简称 NZBS）成立于 1989 年，是新西兰最具代表性的竹类专项行业组织与文化交流平台，由一批致力于竹子鉴赏、种植与文化推广的爱好者与专业人士共同发起。协会的宗旨（We aim to promote the appreciation, growing, and use of bamboo）明确了三大核心方向：推广竹子的鉴赏价值、协助新西兰园艺爱好者掌握竹子种植技术、并推动竹子在新西兰多元文化与日常消费中的应用。协会目前由义务任职的 Office Holders 团队负责日常治理，会长为 President Stephan，秘书（Secretary）与会员秘书兼财务（Membership Secretary & Treasurer）由 Jill Fenaughty 担任，会员与公众可通过协会 Contact us 联系页面对相应职位发起问询。协会通过网站 bamboo.org.nz 提供公开教育资源与会员专区，会员可访问 Stu’s Notes、Private Collections 等深度内容，并可加入协会的 WhatsApp 会员交流群组。协会的年度会费标准为 20 新西兰元（NZD），新西兰本地与海外会员一视同仁，是新西兰竹子爱好者、园艺专业人士与景观设计师的入门级专业资源。
协会沿革与宗旨
新西兰竹子协会于 1989 年在新西兰北岛正式成立，发起人是一批致力于推广竹子鉴赏、种植与应用的爱好者与园艺专业人士。协会以”促进竹子鉴赏、种植与应用”（We aim to promote the appreciation, growing, and use of bamboo）为唯一宗旨，三十多年来始终保持这一清晰定位。协会的运营核心围绕三大方向：第一是推广竹子的鉴赏价值，包括竹子在亚洲传统文化中的象征意义、新西兰本土园林景观中的应用美学、以及竹子作为可持续材料的环境价值；第二是协助新西兰园艺爱好者掌握竹子种植技术，涵盖丛生竹与散生竹的生长习性差异、新西兰气候带下的品种选择、以及竹园维护与扩张控制；第三是推动竹子在新西兰多元文化与日常消费中的应用，包括竹子在亚洲菜肴中的烹饪应用、竹制家具与建材的本土化使用、以及竹艺与手工艺文化的推广。协会通过网站 bamboo.org.nz 提供公开教育资源与会员专区，并通过 News/Events 板块发布年度行业新闻与活动通知。
会员体系与组织架构
协会以”非营利行业自律组织”形式运营，会员体系分为普通会员与荣誉/支持会员两类。普通会员每年缴纳 20 新西兰元年费，可访问网站 members-only 板块、下载 Stu’s Notes 与 Private Collections 等专属内容，并加入会员 WhatsApp 群组与新西兰本地竹子爱好者、园艺师与景观设计师直接交流。会员可通过 Contact us 页面提交姓名、地址、联系方式，并按要求将会费汇入协会银行账户（NZ Bamboo Society Inc. 12-3140-0316000-00，附言格式”NS 姓氏”）完成入会。协会还维护一份覆盖全球的 Bamboo Societies Organisations、Bamboo in New Zealand、Plants and Display Gardens 等外链资源库（Links 页面），与多个国际竹子组织（如 Australian Bamboo Network、American Bamboo Society、英国 Bamboo Society 等）保持联系。组织架构方面，协会采用极简化的义务管理模式，会长、秘书、会员秘书等职位均由志愿者担任，会员大会与年度通讯是协会的主要决策平台。
公共教育、竹子用途与品种资源
协会的公共教育板块覆盖竹子的多元用途与文化价值：在 Uses 主题下，协会整理了 Asian Culture（中国”四君子”中的竹文化象征、越南的竹篱文化、日本神道教与佛教寺院竹林、印度阿萨姆邦竹子入药等）、Construction（建筑与家具用材）、Culinary（竹笋烹饪与毒素 taxiphyllin 处理、印度阿萨姆的 khorisa、印尼 gulai rebung、尼泊尔 tama 等地方料理）、Musical Instruments（箫、笛等乐器制造）、Mythology（竹子在亚洲神话中的角色）、Paper（竹浆造纸）、Weapons（历史竹制武器）以及 Other Uses 等八大用途。在 Varieties 主题下，协会系统介绍了在新西兰适宜栽培的竹属，包括：Bambusa（代表品种 Bambusa oldhamii，可长至大型尺寸，热带与亚热带地区适宜栽培）、Dendrocalamus（代表品种 Dendrocalamus latiflorus，热带大型丛生竹，秆径粗壮）、Phyllostachys（代表品种 Phyllostachys edulis 即毛竹 / Moso，是新西兰竹子种植的主力品种之一）以及 Pseudosasa（倭竹属，适合新西兰温带气候的中小型竹种）。协会还维护独立的 Bamboo in NZ 主题页面，介绍竹子的科学分类（禾本科 Poaceae 竹亚科 Bambusoideae）、全球 1,450+ 个已知物种、丛生竹与散生竹的生长习性差异，以及竹子罕见的大规模同步开花（mass flowering）现象与 65–120 年的开花周期。
竹子移除技术与会员服务
协会在 How to Remove Bamboo 页面提供专业、系统的散生竹移除方法论，强调竹丛是一个通过地下根茎相互连接的整体生物（a grove is a single organism），单一区域砍伐无法根除，必须切断目标区域与母丛的根茎连接，或处理整片竹林。协会总结的四种移除方法分别是：机械挖掘法（使用小型推土机或挖掘机清除地表以下 25cm 深度内的全部根茎，**严禁**使用旋耕机以免将根茎切成可再生的小段）、砍伐耗竭法（连续 2–3 个生长季砍除新萌发的嫩枝以耗尽根茎储存能量）、除草剂涂抹法（在新砍伐的竹桩切面涂抹 Roundup，利用竹子将树液向下输导至根茎的特性，但效果有限且不推荐）、以及生物清除法（利用猪等家畜拱土取食根茎，适合乡村环境）。此外，协会特别强调：竹子移除的关键是在目标区域与母丛之间安装物理根茎屏障（rhizome barrier），屏障必须能承受竹根钻入细微裂缝并突破混凝土的力量，否则切除区域仍会通过屏障缝隙扩张。协会的 Q&A 板块则覆盖竹子与沼泽地的关系（多数竹子不耐积水，但 Phyllostachys atrovaginata、heteroclada 等具备通气根茎结构的品种耐湿性较强）、竹子开花与种子获取（部分竹种 65–120 年才开花一次，新西兰暂无 Moso 种子来源）等常见问题，并通过 News/Events 板块发布行业新闻（如 Bamboo Borer 文章）与年度活动通知。
The New Zealand Bamboo Society (NZBS), founded in 1989, is New Zealand’s most prominent specialist bamboo society and cultural-exchange platform. It was created by a group of enthusiasts and practitioners dedicated to promoting bamboo appreciation, cultivation and use across the country. The Society’s stated purpose — “We aim to promote the appreciation, growing, and use of bamboo” — defines three core pillars: popularising bamboo’s aesthetic value, helping New Zealand gardeners master bamboo cultivation, and encouraging bamboo’s use in everyday New Zealand culture and consumption. The Society is currently run by a volunteer Office Holders team. Its President is Stephan, and the combined Secretary / Membership Secretary & Treasurer role is held by Jill Fenaughty, based in Wellington. Members of the public and prospective members can contact individual Office Holders via the Contact us page, including the post-holder’s position in the subject line. The Society maintains the public website bamboo.org.nz with open educational resources and a members-only section that hosts Stu’s Notes, Private Collections and other in-depth content, alongside an optional members WhatsApp group. Annual membership is set at NZD 20 for both New Zealand and overseas members, making the Society the entry-level professional resource for bamboo hobbyists, horticulturists and landscape designers across the country.
History and Purpose
The New Zealand Bamboo Society was formally established in 1989 in New Zealand’s North Island by a group of enthusiasts and horticultural professionals dedicated to promoting the appreciation, cultivation and use of bamboo. The Society’s purpose — to promote the appreciation, growing and use of bamboo — has remained the single guiding mission for more than three decades. Three operational pillars sit beneath this purpose: first, popularising bamboo’s aesthetic value, encompassing its symbolic role in traditional Asian cultures, its landscape applications in New Zealand gardens, and its value as a sustainable material; second, helping New Zealand gardeners master bamboo cultivation, covering the contrast between clumping and running bamboos, variety selection across New Zealand’s climate zones, and grove maintenance and expansion control; third, encouraging bamboo’s use in New Zealand’s multicultural and consumer life, including culinary applications of bamboo shoots, the local use of bamboo furniture and building materials, and the cultural transmission of bamboo crafts. The Society operates the public website bamboo.org.nz for open education and the members-only section, and uses the News/Events page to publish annual industry updates and event announcements.
Membership and Governance
The Society operates as a non-profit industry self-regulatory body. Its membership system covers regular members and honorary / supporting members. Regular members pay NZD 20 per year and gain access to the website’s members-only section, including Stu’s Notes, Private Collections and similar in-depth resources, and may join the members WhatsApp group to engage directly with New Zealand bamboo enthusiasts, horticulturists and landscape designers. Membership applications are submitted through the Contact us page, providing name, address and contact details; once payment is confirmed, the Society emails a username and password for the members-only area. Annual fees are paid to NZ Bamboo Society Inc. account 12-3140-0316000-00, with the reference field formatted “NS Surname”. The Society also maintains a curated external Links directory covering “Bamboo in New Zealand”, “Plants and Display Gardens”, “Bamboo Societies Organisations”, “Structures, Sculptures, Art, Buildings” and “Bamboo DIY”, with links to international peer societies such as the Australian Bamboo Network, the American Bamboo Society and the Bamboo Society of Great Britain. Governance follows a deliberately lean volunteer model: the President, Secretary and Membership Secretary roles are all unfilled by volunteers, and the annual general meeting and membership newsletter provide the main decision-making channels.
Public Education, Uses and Varieties
The Society’s public-education coverage spans bamboo’s many cultural and practical uses. Under the Uses topic it documents: Asian Culture (China’s “Four Gentlemen” symbolism of bamboo, plum blossom, orchid and chrysanthemum; Vietnamese bamboo-hedge vernacular; Japanese Shinto and Buddhist temple groves; Indian Assamese folk-medicine uses of fermented bamboo paste known as khorisa), Construction (structural and furniture-grade culms), Culinary (the cyanogenic-glycoside taxiphyllin that must be processed out of fresh shoots; Indian khorisa; Indonesian gulai rebung; Nepalese tama; Sambalpuri kardi; the custom of cooking rice and soup directly in fresh bamboo culm sections over a flame), Musical Instruments (flutes, shakuhachi, etc.), Mythology (bamboo’s role in Asian mythology), Paper (bamboo pulp), Weapons (historical bamboo weapons), and Other Uses. Under the Varieties topic the Society maintains profiles of bamboo genera suitable for cultivation in New Zealand: Bambusa (with the representative species Bambusa oldhamii, a large tropical and subtropical clumping bamboo); Dendrocalamus (with Dendrocalamus latiflorus, a large tropical clumper producing thick culms); Phyllostachys (with Phyllostachys edulis / Moso, one of the workhorses of New Zealand bamboo cultivation); and Pseudosasa (a temperate-climate genus of small to medium bamboo suited to New Zealand conditions). The Society also runs a standalone Bamboo in NZ page covering the scientific classification of bamboo (Poaceae, subfamily Bambusoideae, tribe Bambuseae), the more than 1,450 known species worldwide, the growth-habit contrast between clumping (sympodial) and running (monopodial) bamboos, and the rare mass-flowering event in which all plants of a species flower simultaneously over a several-year period — an interval that can be as long as 65–120 years.
Bamboo Removal Techniques and Member Services
The Society’s How to Remove Bamboo page offers a professional, systematic methodology for removing running bamboo, emphasising that a bamboo grove is a single interconnected organism (a grove is a single organism) linked underground by a network of rhizomes, and that cutting down culms in one section will not stop the spread — the rest of the grove will simply reshoot the following season. The four removal methods outlined are: mechanical excavation (using a small bulldozer or bobcat excavator to remove all rhizomes in the top 25 cm of soil, with a strict warning against rotary tillers, which chop rhizomes into small propagable fragments); cutting-and-exhaustion (repeatedly felling new shoots over two to three growing seasons so that the rhizomes deplete their stored energy without any photosynthesis to replenish it); herbicide paint-on (applying neat Roundup to freshly cut culm stumps so the sap flow carries the herbicide down into the rhizomes — a method the Society flags as low-effectiveness and does not endorse); and biological clearance (turning pigs loose in the grove to root up and eat the rhizomes, practical mainly in rural settings). The Society stresses that the second and third methods will fail unless the target area is isolated from the parent grove by severing rhizomes and installing a rhizome barrier capable of withstanding the force of rhizomes pushing through concrete. The Q&A page covers frequently asked questions such as the relationship between bamboo and swampy ground (most species dislike saturated soil, but Phyllostachys atrovaginata and Phyllostachys heteroclada have aerenchymatous rhizomes that tolerate wetter conditions) and bamboo flowering and seed availability (some species only flower at intervals of 65–120 years; Moso seeds are not currently available in New Zealand). The News/Events page hosts industry news such as the Bamboo Borer article and annual meeting announcements.
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