Dendrocalamus giganteus Munro

• Habit
• Culms: Caespitose, Clumping
• Culm Diameter: 20 - 30 cm
• Culm Internode Length: 35 - 40 cm
• Wall thickness: Thick-walled
• Height: 20 - 30 meter

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• Identification Features: Culm Color dull green, covered with white waxy crust when young; Culm-sheaths deciduous, pubescent, presence of dark brown hairs throughout, auriculate; Leaves 15-45 cm long; 3-6 cm, Lanceolate; Inflorescence a huge panicle with long slender curved branchlets; fruit is Caryopsis with adherent pericarp, 7-8 mm long, hairy at apex.
• Flowering Cycle: 40 Years
• Distribution: India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, karnataka, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, West Bengal), China, Myanmar, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka.
• Altitude: Up to 1200 meter
• Spacing for Cultivation:10 x 10 meter
• Uses: Building and Construction, boat masts, Edible shoots,Handicrafts, Pulp and Paper