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Bambusa tuldoides
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Bambusa tuldoides Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 93. 1868.
Bambusa ventricosa McClure, Lingnan Sci. Journ. 17: 57. 1938.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Buddha's belly bamboo
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Description:
Culms tufted, to 5 m tall; internodes often obliquely swollen, nearly as wide as long, to 4 cm diameter; successive internodes forming a slightly zig-zag pattern; long slender horizontal branches frequent from lower nodes of such culms. Culm-sheaths somewhat flushed with purple when young, quite hairless on the back, on the largest culms to 20 cm. long, top rounded, with a crisped auricle to 4 mm, high on each side of the base of the blade, edge of auricle bearing crisped bristles 4-5 mm, long; blade erect, smooth on the back, and rough hairy on the upper surface, on upper sheaths narrowly triangular with a slightly narrowed base and edges stiffly inflexed towards the pointed apex, edges bristly near the base, line of junctions between sheath and blade not distinct externally in the middle part; ligule to 5 mm. high, lower towards the outer ends, edge sinuous and minutely hairly. Leaf-blades to 15 x 2 cm., lower ones with broad truncate base, stalks short, lower surface very shortly soft-hairy (velvety to the touch), colour as upper surface; sheath auricles usually with fine bristles when young; ligule short.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as ornamental plant
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Distribution:
Native of China and Thailand, introduced elsewhere
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Monocotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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