Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family, in the case of Dendrocalamus sinicus having individual stalks (culms) reaching a length of 46 meters (151 ft), up to 36 centimeters (14 in) in thickness and a weight of up to 450 kilograms (1,000 lb). The internodes of bamboos can also be of great length. Kinabaluchloa wrayi has internodes up to 2.5 meters (8 ft) in length. and Arthrostylidium schomburgkii has internodes up to 5 meters (16 ft) in length, exceeded in length only by papyrus. By contrast, the stalks of the tiny bamboo Raddiella vanessiae of the savannas of French Guiana measure only 10–20 millimeters (0.4–0.8 in) in length by about 2 millimeters (0.08 in) in width. The origin of the word "bamboo" is uncertain, but it probably comes from the Dutch or Portuguese language, which originally borrowed it from Malay or Kannada.
Pleioblastus is an East Asian genus of monopodial bamboos in the grass family Poaceae. They are native to China and Japan, and naturalized in scattered places in Korea, Europe, New Zealand, and the Western Hemisphere.
Thamnocalamus is a genus of clumping bamboo in the grass family. These species are found from the Himalayas as well as Madagascar and Southern Africa.
Yushania is a genus of bamboo in the grass family.
Arundinarieae is a tribe of bamboo in the grass family (Poaceae) containing a single subtribe, Arundinariinae, and 31 genera. These woody bamboos occur in areas with warm temperate climates in southeastern North America, Subsaharan Africa, South Asia and East Asia. The tribe forms a lineage independent of the tropical woody bamboos (Bambuseae) and the tropical herbaceous bamboos (Olyreae).
Neomicrocalamus is an Asian genus of bamboo in the grass family.
Acidosasa is a genus of East Asian bamboo in the grass family.
Himalayacalamus is an Asian genus of mountain clumping bamboo in the grass family. Species members are found growing at lower altitudes of the Himalaya in Bhutan, Tibet, India, and Nepal.
Fargesia is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family. These bamboos are native primarily to China, with a few species in Vietnam and in the eastern Himalayas. Some species are cultivated as ornamentals, with common names including umbrella bamboo and fountain bamboo.
Ferrocalamus, or iron bamboo, is a genus of Chinese bamboo in the grass family. endemic to China. The plant is known only from southern Yunnan, at elevations of 900 to 1,200 m above sea level.
Gelidocalamus is a genus of small to medium-sized bamboos in the grass family, native primarily to the mountains of eastern China, although one species (G. kunishii) is native to Taiwan and to the Nansei-shoto region in Japan.
Monocarpic plants are those that flower and set seeds only once, and then die.
Bambusa vulgaris, common bamboo, is an open-clump type bamboo species. It is native to Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, and to the province of Yunnan in southern China, but it has been widely cultivated in many other places and has become naturalized in several regions. Among bamboo species, it is one of the largest and most easily recognized.
Candy stripe may refer to:
Filgueirasia is a genus of Brazilian bamboo in the grass family.
Bashania is a genus of East Asian bamboo in the grass family, native to China and Vietnam.
- Bashania abietinaT.P.Yi & L.Yang – Sichuan
- Bashania fansipanensisT.Q.Nguyen – Vietnam
- Bashania fargesii(E.G.Camus) Keng f. & T.P.Yi – Gansu, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan
- Bashania qingchengshanensisKeng f. & T.P.Yi – Sichuan
Sasamorpha is a genus of East Asian bamboo in the grass family.
- Sasamorpha borealis(Hack.) Nakai – Korea, Japan, Sakhalin
- Sasamorpha hubeiensisC.H.Hu – Hubei, Jiangxi
- Sasamorpha oshidensis(Makino & Uchida) Nakai – Japan
- Sasamorpha qingyuanensisC.H.Hu – Zhejiang
- Sasamorpha sinica(Keng) Koidz. – Anhui, Zhejiang
Pseudosasa cantorii is a species of bamboo originally from China. It can grow up to a height of 1.5–2 meters.
Bambusa beecheyana is a species of Bambusa bamboo.
Yi-Li Keng was a Chinese botanist, specializing in the study of grasses, particularly the tribe Triticeae of the Poaceae.
