Observations and experiments were carried out on abortion, vitality and pollination of pollens of 12 bamboo species. The vitality maint-anance time of anther and pollens was very short when they left their mother plant, especially the pollen which might lose vitality in 1~2h. Appropriate liquid medium for bamboo pollen germination was 10 % sugar solution. The germination percentage apparently increscently increased when 5 ppm boric acid was added to the solution.The flowers of Ph. nidularia f. smoothsheath ...