Bio Diversity Park

Common Name : Giant Thorny Bamboo, Indian Thorny Bamboo

Hindi Name : बांस | Scientific Name : Bambusa bambos
Family : Poaceae
Uses : Culms are used for house construction, scaffolding, rafters, thatching and roofing, handicrafts and art objects, basket making, bows and arrows, furniture, floating timber and rafting, cooking utensils and fencing. The raw material of this bamboo is also an important source for paper pulp and panel products. Shoots and seeds are edible and leaves are used as fodder and medicine.
Native: India, Southeastern Asia and Southern China
General Description:

The culms from a thick stoloniferous rhizome, erect, 10-20cm across; culm sheaths broadly triangular, densely brownish-hairy within, and scattered hairy without. Leaves to 20cm long; sheaths to 12 x 0.2cm, linear, glabrous; ligule short, entire; petiole short. Inflorescence a compound panicle with the spikelets in heads. Spikelets 1-many-flowered, 0.8-2cm long, oblong, terete. Bracts glume-like. Glumes 1-3, to 5.5mm, broadly ovate, mucronate. Lemmas to 6.5mm, lanceolate, mucronate, coriaceous, glabrous. Paleas to 7mm, 2-keeled, ciliate. Stamens 6. Style 1; stigmas 3. Caryopsis linearly cylindric.