Question: What are Echinacea and Bamboo?

Context articles: Bamboo Club
Echinacea sanguinea
Bamboo mat
Echinacea angustifolia
Ya (arrow)
Bamboo
World Bamboo Organization
Echinacoside
Echinacea
Fuji Bamboo Garden

Bamboo Club, nicknamed Bamboo, is a Romanian-based chain of nightclubs with headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, owned and operated by Giosue "Joshua" Castellano.
 The first club was opened in the capital of Romania in 2002.
 Bamboo Group Entertainment also includes clubs in Brașov, Mamaia and Miami Beach.
 Red Club and Le Gaga clubs in Bucharest together with Bamboo Ballroom, Bamboo Fitness, Bamboo Luxury and Bamboo Pool are also part of the franchise.
Echinacea sanguinea (sanguine purple coneflower) is a herbaceous perennial native to open sandy fields and open pine woods and prairies in eastern Texas, southeastern Oklahoma, Louisiana, and southwestern Arkansas.
 It is the southernmost "Echinacea" species.
 The specific epithet "sanguinea", which is Latin for "blood", refers to the color of the petals.
One of the ways to use a bamboo mat for S'chach (for the top of a sukkah).
 The Bamboo Mat is made from Bamboo sticks then it's cut vertical and tied with a thin string.
 Although you can use palm leaves and pine tree branches etcetera, But the Bamboo Mat can be used yearly as opposed to palm leaves and pine tree branches etcetera that can't be used yearly.
 Also another advantage is that if you will use palm leaves and pine tree branches etcetera, leaves and chips of wood might fall off from the palm leaves and pine tree branches etcetera , but if you use a bamboo mat for S'chach usually leaves and chips of wood would less likely to fall off from the s'chach Once Succot is over, it can just as easily be rolled up into about 6" in diameter depending on your bamboo mat so for example if you have a bamboo mat that's 5' x 10' it will usually be 5' feet tall, making storage and retrieval simple year after year.
Echinacea angustifolia (narrow-leaved purple coneflower or blacksamson echinacea) is a North American plant species in sunflower family.
 It is widespread across much of the Great Plains of central Canada and the central United States, with additional populations in nearby regions.
The "" are made from "yadake" bamboo and can have different shapes – straight, or tapering – depending on the use of the arrow in long-distance shooting or target practice.
 Lighter arrows can lose their stability when shot from a strong bow, heavier arrows have a trajectory that arcs more.
 Typically they use bamboo from the Kanto area.
 This is for a purely practical reason.
 Bamboo will not grow fast enough in a cold area, and the joints are too close together and in a warm area the bamboo grows too fast and the joints are too far apart.
 So the Kanto area has a moderate climate which makes the joints the perfect distance apart.The joints of your shaft help with the balance.
 After harvesting bamboo it still changes size and shape, so you have to wait 2 ½ to 3 years after cutting it to use it.
 When it has aged the proper time the bamboo should provide a good tight grip around the tang of your Yanone.
 They would temper the bamboo in a special kiln similar to the Viking beehive style and straighten it with a tool called a tomegi, or "tree tame," which is also used when creating bamboo fishing pools.
 The appearance of the No varies.
 Some were plain, while others glistened with red lacquer.
The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.
 In bamboo, as in other grasses, the internodal regions of the stem are usually hollow and the vascular bundles in the cross section are scattered throughout the stem instead of in a cylindrical arrangement.
 The dicotyledonous woody xylem is also absent.
 The absence of secondary growth wood causes the stems of monocots, including the palms and large bamboos, to be columnar rather than tapering.
World Bamboo Organization Founded as the International Bamboo Association (IBA), the idea for an international coordinating body for bamboo practitioners was born out of discussions at the International Bamboo Workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 1991.
 The IBA was consequently established at the 1992 International Bamboo Congress in Japan.
 Through 1998 the IBA had been the coordinating platform for bamboo people around the world, with its primary responsibility being the International Bamboo Congress & International Bamboo Workshop.
 A union of these two distinct gatherings is today called the World Bamboo Congress, and has led to the rebirth of the IBA into the "World Bamboo Organization".
 The WBO was legally formed as a U.S.
 tax-exempt trade association in 2005 by CEO Susanne Lucas.
 She currently holds the position of Executive Director, WBO Ambassador and is the author of "Bamboo".
 Kamesh Salam (Assam, India) served as President 2007-2009.
 Michel Abadie (Paris, France) served his first term as President from 2010-2012, and was reappointed a second term in 2013 and has continued his role to the present.
Echinacoside is a natural phenol.
 It is a caffeic acid glycoside from the phenylpropanoid class.
 It is constituted from a trisaccharide consisting of two glucose and one rhamnose moieties glycosidically linked to one caffeic acid and one dihydroxyphenylethanol (hydroxytyrosol) residue at the centrally situated rhamnose.
 This water-soluble glycoside is a distinctive secondary metabolite of "Echinacea angustifolia" and "Echinacea pallida" (to about 1%) but only occurs in trace amounts in "Echinacea purpurea".
 It is also isolated from "Cistanche spp".
Echinacea is a genus, or group of herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family.
 The "Echinacea" genus has nine species, which are commonly called purple coneflowers.
 They are found only in eastern and central North America, where they are found growing in moist to dry prairies and open wooded areas.
 They have large, showy heads of composite flowers, blooming from early to late summer.
 The generic name is derived from the Greek word ἐχῖνος ("ekhinos"), meaning "hedgehog," due to the spiny central disk.
 These flowering plants and their parts have different uses.
 Some species are cultivated in gardens for their showy flowers.
 "Echinacea purpurea" is used in folk medicine.
 Two of the species, "E. tennesseensis" and "E. laevigata", are listed in the United States as endangered species.
The Fuji Bamboo Garden (富士竹類植物園 Fuji Chikurui Shokubutsuen?)
 is Japan’s only botanical garden specializing in bamboo.
 Fuji Bamboo Garden is located in Nagaizumi, which is part of Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture (southwest of Tokyo).
 The garden is located at the base of Mount Fuji, from where the garden's name originated.
 The garden occupies over 2 acres of land.
 Fuji Bamboo Garden is said to be the world’s largest collection of bamboo, holding more than 450 varieties of bamboo from all around the world.
 The garden contains approximately 100,000 bamboo plants.
 The types of bamboo in the garden range from black bamboo to moso bamboo.
 The garden has benches to sit on, as well as bamboo sheds each holding a special type of bamboo.