Pearson-1989 production and leaf longevity. Found a dead, flowered clump on the grid. Also, slightly below the grid, a swarm of young clumps with 4 to a dozen culms of graded sizes, but no dead mother clump nearby. A collection of branches from the grid had produced: 3+3+3 leaves, 2+3 leaves, 2+2+3 leaves, and 3+3 leaves. See also analysis of the branches from the 1984-85 culm. November 23 - Puerto Blest. One big clump at the south end of the camping meadow is half blooming; seems to have half bloomed last year, probably after we had been there, and half is blooming this year. We measured iour two study clumps (production quite low), then walked the road to El Abuelo and back: 9 blooming bushes on the Rio Frias side of the road, 3 on the opposite side, 12 in total. November 24 - Puerto Blest. Walked to Cantaros, then along the Lake at the top of the steps toward Lago Ortiz Basualdo. Beautiful forest, lots of bamboo, but saw none blooming. Numerous places with small groups of young bamboo, sometimes with a dead mother clump nearby looking dead many years. Pressed one particularly small, 4-culm "clump", one of the culms a brand new shoot with tiny leaf at the tip.. During this walk we saw very few plants with small dead shoots; apparently that kind of parasitism is not common this year. Here is leaf production and longevity of leaves, deduced from reading leaf lengths and leaf spacing along individual branches. The first column of each pair is number of leaves and scars visible for each year; the second column of each pair is the number of leaves surviving on 11/23/89: Puerto Blest, Clump D1, a culm older than 1934-84 Year 88-89 87-88 86-87 85-86 84-85 83-84 82-83 81-82 No.leaves 39 36 44 29 38 13 30 1 14 0 11 0 5 0 2 0 No.branches 15 15 14 11 5 5 3 1 Av.no.leaves and scars 2.60 2.93 2.71 2.73 2.80 2.20 1.7 2.0 % survival 92.3% 65.9% 34.2% 3.3% 0% 0% 0% 0% The above 15 branches included 9 long ones up to 23 inches long and 6 shorter ones. 4 had dead tips. *************** Culm No. 3 1983-84 in Clump D1 at Puerto Blest 11/23 Year 88-89 87-88 86-87 85-86 84-85 No. leaves 37 35 41 31 35 10 22 0 8 0 No branches 14 14 14 8 6