Bio Diversity Park

Common Name : Male Bamboo. Calcutta Stricta or Bamboo

Hindi Name : लाठी बाँस | Scientific Name : Dendrocalamus strictus
Family : Poaceae
Uses : The plant is suitable for the reclamation of ravine land. The stems are used for a wide range of purposes - scaffolding, bridges, poles, agricultural implements and other large bamboo implements. They are also split and used to make other items such as walking sticks, furniture and baskets. The stems are extensively used as a raw material in paper mills. Young shoots are edible and used as food. Leaves are used as forage, and decoction of leaves and nodes and silicious matter is used in traditional medicine.
Native: Andaman , Assam, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya
General Description:

Calcutta Bamboo is a deciduous densely tufted bamboo with stems 8-16 m high, 2.5-8 cm in diameter, pale blue green when young, dull green or yellow on maturity, much curved above half of its height. The most peculiar aspect of the plant is the solid stem as there is no hollow part in it. Leaves are linear-lanceshaped, small in dry localities, up to 25 cm long and 3 cm broad in moist areas, rounded at the base into a short petiole, tip is sharply tapering with twisted point. Inflorescence is a large panicle of large dense globular heads 4-5 cm apart. Long stamens protrude out of the flowers.