Dendrocalamus hamiltonii or Hamilton’s bamboo

Dendrocalamus hamiltonii or Hamilton’s bamboo

Dendrocalamus hamiltonii is a large clumping bamboo native to southern Asia, including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, southern China, and Southeast Asia. Culms are thick and strong, but not perfectly straight, so they may have industrial applications, but are not ideal...
Genus Bambusa: Paragon of bamboo

Genus Bambusa: Paragon of bamboo

If you walk into a bamboo nursery or a botanical garden and see a specimen labeled Bambusa multiplex, and another identified as Bambusa oldhamii, you might deduce that Bambusa is the genus that includes all species of bamboo. But in fact, it’s one of about 100...