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(Warning Pic Intensive) Can anyone help to identify these plants?

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Sleep Junkie:
I meant to write and thank you guys for the quick answers, but it slipped my mind for awhile.  I think I am going to pass on the bamboo, seeing as how it might be difficult to work with.  I will keep cutting the Honeysuckle and Multiflora rose that grows around here.  Those two shaft materials, coupled with the massive amounts of Goldenrod and Horseweed that are growing on the pipeline behind my house, should keep me in shafts for quite awhile.  I did go to the local greenhouse the other day though and I bought a Viburnum Dentatum or Southern Arrow wood plant.  Maggie, the greenhouse owner, is also supposed to be getting me some River or Switch cane and some Red Osier Dogwood plants as soon as she can.  From what I have seen on the posts, these makes some damn fine arrow shafts in a couple year or three.  I figure that if I get them and keep up with the pruning, they should stay very straight.  Plus it will be nice to have them right here close to home. 

Lately, I have been reading a bit about basket weaving and from what I understand, willow is perfect for this.  I think I am going to go harvest some of those willow shoots in the pic I posted and attempt to make an arrow quiver, like one I saw here on the PA website.  I am not sure who made it but it looked really nice.  Hehe Little did I know that when I started getting into this primitive archery stuff that it would begin to take up so much time!  That's okay though, because you know what they say, "idle hands are the devils tools" and in my case, that couldn't be more true.

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