A GARDEN centre in Breage is providing a food source for endangered red pandas.
Trevena Cross is a nursery and garden centre near Helston with a broad range of plants, but specialises in sub-tropical plants, palms, tree ferns, and bamboo.
Alison Hales, director of Paradise Park, near Hayle, said: "I’d like to thank Trevena Cross for their support, and particularly nurseryman John for his help in setting this up.
"As the pandas need five good stems of bamboo every day and cut stems only keep for two days in our fridge-temperature cold room at Paradise Park, we will be visiting very often as we give our own bamboo plants a chance to regrow.
Trevena Cross has many species of bamboo for sale but also large plantations of phyllostachys varieties in its car park.
Owner Graham Jeffery is happy for these to be ‘thinned out’ to help the red pandas.
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