Bambusa nutans Wall. ex Munro

• Habit
• Culms: caespitose
• Culm Diameter: 5 - 10 cm
• Culm Internode Length: 35 - 45 cm
• Wall thickness: Thick-walled
• Height: 6 - 15 meter

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• Identification Features: Culm Color-Green, with aerial roots from the nodes, nodes glabrous; Culm-sheaths 15-23 cm long, with appressed black hairs, auriculate; Culm-sheath blade triangular; Leaves: 15-30 cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm broad, Lanceolate; Inflorescence is clustered at the nodes; Fruit is a oblong Caryopsis with adherent pericarp.
• Flowering Cycle: 35 Years
• Distribution: India (Orissa, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand), Bangladesh, Thailand
• Altitude: 600 - 1500 meter
• Spacing for Cultivation:7 x 7 meter
• Uses: Building and Construction, poles, Pulp and paper