Dendrocalamus strictus (Roxb.) Nees

• Habit
• Culms: tufted
• Culm Diameter: 2.5 - 7.5 cm
• Culm Internode Length: 30 - 45 cm
• Wall thickness: Thick-walled
• Height: 6 - 15 meter

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• Identification Features: Culm Color-Dull green, much curved above half of its height; nodes somewhat swollen; Culm-sheaths deciduous, coriaceous, hispid, hairy throughout with golden brown hairs, auriculate, 8-30 cm; Leaves linear-lanceolate, up to 25 cm long; Inflorescence a panicle of large dense globular heads 4-5 cm apart; Spikelets spinescent; Fruit a Caryopsis with adherent pericarp, brown, ovoid, 8 mm long, hairy at apex.
• Flowering Cycle: 25 - 45 years
• Distribution: India (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhatisgarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Gujarath, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh), Bangladesh, China, Pakisthan, Nepal
• Altitude: 1000 meter
• Spacing for Cultivation:5 x 5 meter
• Uses: Building and Construction, Edible shoots, Furniture, Pulp and Paper, Reclamation of river banks, Agricultural implements, Musical instruments, Medicinal purposes