Bambusa bambos (L.) Voss
EOL Text
vulgaris: vulgar, common, usual
Riversides, open forests. Yunnan [SE Asia; pantropical].
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Thorny Bamboo is native over much of India. It is absent from Pakistan and the Himalayas except in cultivation from the Ravi eastwards. The culms are strong and extensively used for building purposes. A single herbarium collection is known: Kashmir, Falconer 1245(K).
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Flowering class: Monocot Habit: Shrub Distribution notes: Exotic
Rare (as an escape)
"A ready colonizer. Upto 1000m, in moist deciduous to semi evergreen forests. India (except in the Himalayas and Indo-gangetic plain)."
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United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
Shoots and seed grains are edible. Stem used for a variety of purposes.
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Flowering class: Monocot Habit: Shrub