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how can you tell live river cane?

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cowboy:
Here's some river cane I found in AL, in case your ever down south you'll know what to look for.

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ballista:
 wow, thats awesome-they look similar to bamboo, or a reed maybe- great pictures, that really helped me. my grampa lives in the florida everglades, ife seen a few different plants that look similar to that-so will it grow near rivers, like the name it has, or just any marshy area/freshwater area? oh, and the second pic is after heat and scraping right?  hanks for all the quick replies guys, i'd had never known about the diferent species of good arrow woods like red osier and such- do the canes hold up to feather glue, or do you fletch them similar to the english war arrows (the only way i know ow to describe them ;D) -jimmy

cowboy:
Yup Jimmy - that river cane kinda likes to grow in the low lying areas where theirs water nearby, the hill cane I think grows around seeps on the sides of hills. thier's other kinds of boos and canes around here and there, if ya happen to see some growing along the highway, cut it and see if it works - that's my gatherer philosophy ;D. I wrap my fletching's with sinew top and bottom and dot along the quill with super glue - doesn't hold worth a darn. Think I will start putting a few little wraps of sinew along the fletch to help hold it down as well.

Pat B:
A light sanding where the fletching will go helps the glue hold. On the ones I built this year I was using Cherokee style 2 fletch and a hybrid 2 fletch like Marius made. Both styles were tied at the front and back with sinew and no glue used. 
   There are 3 native canes(Arundaneria) and lots of different exotic canes(Arundaneria, Bambusa, etc) growing throughout the US. All are bamboos and some make better arrow shafts than others but most will make arrow shafts.   Pat

ballista:
awewome, today a woke up, put my boots on, and rode (my bike :P) to the creek by my house, at about 9 oclock. brought a serraded knife with me, hopes high, and i had my hickory longbow. 15 minutes into scouting for some osier, which im pretty sure ive actually seen growning there, it downpours. its about 50 degrees, cold rain, no sigh of any squirrels... a great day ;D after school tomarrow im going to go see if I can harvest a dozen or so red osier canes. do you ever really taper them or no? i did a google search on red osier, i guess they have white edible berries that grow off them, but i also heard they dry really weird, like some will take 2 months, some will take 14... not sure, this is just what i read. thanks again PA, -jimmy

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