Melocanna baccifera
Melocanna baccifera
Melocanna baccifera
Melocanna baccifera
Melocanna baccifera
Melocanna baccifera
Melocanna baccifera
Melocanna baccifera
Melocanna baccifera

Melocanna baccifera (Roxb.) Kurz

  • Habit
  • Culms: Solitary
  • Culm Diameter: 5 - 9 cm
  • Culm Internode Length: 30 - 60 cm
  • Wall thickness: Thin-walled
  • Height: 10 - 20 meter

  • Identification Features: Culms are green when young, straw coloured when old; Culm-sheaths persistent, coriaceous, pubescent, hairy throughout with yellow hairs, without auricles, 10-15 cm long; Leaves lanceolate, 18-42 cm long; 2-9 cm wide; Inflorescence a large compound panicle of one-sided drooping, spicate branches; Caryopsis with fleshy pericarp, ovoid, isodiametric, 7.5-12.5 cm long, Endosperm farinose (small).
  • Flowering Cycle: 30 - 45 Years
  • Distribution: India (Assam, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tripura, West Bengal), Bangladesh, China, Myanmar, Nepal
  • Spacing for Cultivation:5 x 5 meter
  • Uses: Building and Construction, Edible shoots, Handicrafts, Pulp and Paper, woven ware, Edible fruits, Floats making
Vernacular names of Melocanna baccifera

Tarai (Assam), Muli (Bengal), Wati (Cachar), - Watray, Wa-sith,Wah-thri, warai (Garo), Moubi-wa (Manipur), Arten (Mikir), Turiah (Nagaland), Bajail (Sylhet), Nali (Dhaka), Muli, U-silli (Khasi),Mautak, Maomitvel (Mizo), Ramaw (Mara), Egochiabas (Chakma), Uarthoi (Bru/Riang), Mou (Paithe)

Synonym of Melocanna baccifera

Bambusa baccifera Roxb., Beesha baccifera (Roxb.) Kunth, Nastus baccifera (Roxb.) Raspail, Melocanna bambusoides Trin, Beesha rheedii Kunth

Flowering Reported: 1863, 1866, 1892, 1893, 1900-1902, 1910-1912, 1933, 1960 (Chatterjee, 1960; Vaid, 1972); Cachar and Manipur in 1967 Sporadic (Nath, 1968); FRI, Dehra Dun Sharma (1992)

Remarks: Reported from Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tripura. Cultivated in Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, West Bengal and other states.


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