Dendrocalamus hamiltonii Nees & Arn.ex Munro

• Habit
• Culms: Caespitose
• Culm Diameter: 10 - 18.5 cm
• Culm Internode Length: 30 - 50 cm
• Wall thickness: Thick-walled
• Height: 12 - 20 meter

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• Identification Features: Culm dark green with dense appressed pubescence; Culm-sheaths 35-45 cm long, with dark brown hairs; Culm-sheath ligule entire, leaves lanceolate, 20-37 cm long, 2-4 cm wide; Inflorescence a panicle with many whorls of branches; Fruit a Caryopsis broadly ovoid, beaked, hairy above.
• Flowering Cycle: 30 - 40 years
• Distribution: India (Arunachal pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand), Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Nepal.
• Spacing for Cultivation:5 x 5 meter
• Uses: Building and Construction, Edible shoot, Furniture, Handicrafts, floats for timber-rafts