Bambusa

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Balcooa

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Strong timber bamboo.
Edible shoots

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Bambusa Chungii
Blue Bamboo

Info:
stunning, mystical bamboo. Thin-walled culms are covered with persistent, dense white bloom, giving them a pale blue appearance. Also called Emperor's Blue Bamboo & White Bamboo

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Dolichomerithalla

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A stunning ornamental
with dark green straitions.

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Eutuldoides
variation Viridi Vittata

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Very erect. Yellow with green strialed culms and leaves.

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Gibba

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Good small timber bamboo.
Chinese Bamboo from
Hong Kong where it is
used as a natural fence.

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Heterostachya variegated

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Makes great small hedge.
Very fast growing ornamental.

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Lako (Sun. G. Timor Black)

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Popular ornamental. With Black to purple culms. Very erect.

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Bambusa Lingnia
Remotiflora

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Open clumping when mature.
Beautiful purple shoots when mature.
Very useful timber.

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Bambusa Longispiculata
Mahal bamboo

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Open clumping bamboo with yellow striations.
Good furniture bamboo.

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Bambusa Luteostriata
South Kalimantan

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A beautiful garden bamboo. Tight clumping with weeping culms. White striated leaves.

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Bambusa Maculata
Pring Tutul

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A must for furniture makers.
A very decorative timber bamboo with dark pattern culms when cured.

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Bambusa New Guinea Black

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Young culms are black.
Tight clumping ornamental bamboo.

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Bambusa Nutans
Bidhuli

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Medium sized timber bamboo.
A very nice garden bamboo.

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Oldhamii
Oldhams Bamboo, Giant Timber Bamboo.

Info:
The most common subtropical timber bamboo. Grows in a columnar form with nodding culm tips. The culms have very thick walls. One of the most drought tolerant bamboos. Used as a windbreak in New Zealand. The new shoots are excellent for cooking.

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Bambusa Oliveriana
Wapgusan

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Excellent for hedging with strong upright culms and beautiful long leaves.

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Bambusa Polymorpha
Bengal Bamboo

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Very high tensile strength timber bamboo. Beautiful medium sized ornamental bamboo.

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Textilis
Weavers Bamboo

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A highly ornamental subtropical clumping bamboo. The tops of the culms arch dramatically in the skyline.
The fibrous wood is woven into baskets, mats and other usefull items.
Drought tolerant.

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Textilis variation Fusca

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Good hedging bamboo usefull timber for weaving.

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Bambusa Textilis variation Glabra
Smooth Weavers Bamboo

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Excellent quality weaving splits easily. Good hedging bamboo.

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Textilis variation Gracilis
Slender Weavers Bamboo

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A graceful ornamental bamboo that is drought tolerant. Makes a beautifull hedge.

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Tulda
Calcutta Cane, Bengal Bamboo

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Is mainly used by the Indian paper pulping industry. It is also used for furniture, making baskets and reinforcing concrete. This type of bamboo is used to make a sacred flute called the ELOO.
It is also used for fishing rods. It is one of the most useful species of Bambusa. Solid bamboo.

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Ventricosa
Buddhas Belly Bamboo

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Grown under most healthful plant conditions it becomes a large timber timber type bamboo with zigzag culms at the base. Grown under austere bonsai conditions the crowded culms become swollen in the internodes; reminding a person of Buddha's belly. Drought Tolerant. Great potted bamboo.

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Ventricosa Kimmei
Kimmei Buddhas Belly

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Same as the green form except the culms are yellow green striped with darker green. Variegated leaves. Drought tolerant. Great potted bamboo.

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Vulgaris Vittata
Green Stripe Bamboo

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An often used large tropical bamboo with abundant green stripes on the yellow culms. The bamboo most used for interiorscaping. Drought Tolerant.

Species/Common Name
Bambusa Vulgaris Wamin
Giant Buddhas Belly

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Popular ornamental. Drought tolerant. Needs to be stressed for best Buddha's bellys. Great potted bamboo.