Bambusa longispiculata
Bambusa longispiculata
Bambusa longispiculata
Bambusa longispiculata

Bambusa longispiculata Gamble

  • Habit
  • Culms: Caespitose
  • Culm Diameter: 7 - 10 cm
  • Culm Internode Length: 30 - 70 cm
  • Wall thickness:
  • Height: 12 - 15 meter

  • Identification Features: Culm color green, nodes slightly thickened with circular bands of white pubescence, young shoots greyish green with dark brown hairs; culm sheath length 16-25 cm, covered with browish black appressed hairs; leaves 18-25 cm long, 2-6cm broad; inflorescence erect, oftern branching.
  • Flowering Cycle:
  • Distribution: Bangladesh, Thailand, India (Mizoram), Myanmar
  • Altitude: 1000 meter
  • Uses: Handicrafts
Vernacular names of Bambusa longispiculata

Metenga(West Bengal); Thaikwa(Myanmar)

Flowering Reported: Flowering reported in Bangladesh 1978 -85 (sporadic flowering) 1983 - 1985 (gregariuos flowering)


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