Dendrocalamus sikkimensis Gamble ex Oliver

• Habit
• Culms: Caespitose
• Culm Diameter: 12 - 20 cm
• Culm Internode Length: 30 - 45 cm
• Wall thickness: Thick-walled
• Height: 17 - 20 meter

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• Identification Features: Culm Color-Dark green; Culm-sheaths 30 cm long, pubescent with dark brown hairs, auriculate; Leaves: 15-25 cm long 2.5-5 cm broad, lanceolate; Inflorescence a panicle with stiff nodose branches bearing large red-brown globose heads; Fruit Caryopsis with adherent pericarp, obovoid.
• Flowering Cycle:
• Distribution: India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal), Bhutan, China, Nepal
• Altitude: 2100 meter
• Spacing for Cultivation:7 x 7 meter
• Uses: Fencing, Posts, Huts, Ropes, Boxes, Water pipes, Pulp and paper, Handicrafts, Animal fodder