Tiki Central / Collecting Tiki / need help with a home bar identification
Post #19101 by traderfranks on Sat, Jan 11, 2003 11:32 PM
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Rattan is made from the stems of certain climbing palms ('rattan palms'). Both bamboos and rattan palms are monocots and no monocots produce true wood. The stems of bamboo and rattan are easy to tell apart. Bamboo stems have thickened nodes that resemble rings, and the internodes (the space between the rings) are often channeled. Rattan stems are smoother, and more uniform in thickness. Bamboo cross sections are hollow, except at the nodes, wheras rattan stems are filled with a fibrous pith (they're solid). [email protected]
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