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22 PRIORITY SPECIES OF BAMBOO AND RATTAN USES: Primarily used as building material, structural timber, medium quality, decorative timber; shoots are edible; it is also used locally for making baskets, paper pulp, land scaping, furniture average quality. RESEARCH NEEDS: All aspects, including cultivation. Bambusa textilis Common Name: Weavers bamboo This is a medium-sized sympodial bamboo with culms up to 15 m tall, straight and smooth, diameter 3–5 cm, internode 35–60 cm, leaves lanceolate 9–25 x 1–2.5 cm; Little information on flowering and fruiting. Several cultivars and varieties recognized cv. Albostriata, var, glabra, var, gracilis. DISTRIBUTION: South China, including Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian provinces introduced to other provinces (Fig. 6). CLIMATE AND SOILS: Bambusa textilis is native and cultivated in China in subtropical areas on moderately rich soils, usually growing on hills. CONSERVATION AND RESEARCH: Need attention, some hybrids produced crossing with Bambusa pervariabilis and Dendrocalamus latiflorus. Three botanical varieties identified, cv, ‘Albo striata’, var glabra, var. gracilis. USES: Structural bamboo, light quality, largely used for making handicrafts and kitchen utensils, weaving splits, and land scaping, edible shoots of average quality, cultivar albostriata, general purpose furniture, edible shoots average quality, var glabra – structural timber, light quality, furniture medium quality, edible shoots average quality, var gracilis, structural timber, light quality, small diameter bamboo for furniture, edible shoots, average quality. RESEARCH NEEDS: Flowering and fruiting, propagation methods, cultivar development. Bambusa tulda (= Dendrocalamus tulda) Common name: Bengal bamboo, Spineless Indian bamboo, Calcutta cane. This is a medium-sized tufted bamboo, clump forming, evergreen, rarely deciduous, growing up to 30 m, but often less; fast growing culms, 0.4–0.7 cm thick walls with diameter ca 5–10 cm, internodes 40–70 cm long, leaf 15–25 x 2–4 cm, leaf size variable on the same culm. Inflorescence on leafless branches and pseudo spikelets, fruit 7–5 mm long. Flowering spordic, isolated and gregarious, flowering cycle 25–40 years, fruit oblong 7.5 mm long. Vegetative propagation methods – culm cuttings, marcotting, offset rhizomes, macroproliferation of seedlings, tissue culture method known. DISTRIBUTION: Native of India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand. Introduced to other parts, cultivated in N. India, Terai, Nepal, introduced to Java, Vietnam, and the Philippines (Fig. 7). CLIMATE AND SOIL: Frequently found to grow as an undergrowth sporadically or in patches in the mixed semi-deciduous forests. Sometimes form patches of a pure to semi-pure vegetation. Grows well in moist and moderately high rainfall (4000–6500
Indigenous PART I 23 Cultivated / Introduced Fig. 6 Bambusa textilis
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References PART II 83 Aloysius, D.
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