DESCRIPTION : Evergreen arborescent bamboo. Culms are thin walled erect. Pear size fruits. It has a clumper rhizome.

Taxonomy :

                                                                                 KINGDOM : Plantae

                                                                                         DIVISION : Magnoliophyta

                                                                                            CLASS : Liliopsida

                                                                                               SUBCLASS : Commelinidae

                                                                                                       ORDER : Cyperales

                                                                                                               FAMILY : Poaceae

                                                                                                                   SUBFAMILY : Bambusoideae

                                                                                                                           TRIBE : Bambuseae

                                                                                                                                   SUBTRIBE : Melocanninae

                                                                                                                                          GENUS : Melocanninae

 

Chemical Composition :  Not Available

SHOOT: It is used for eating purpose. (EDIBLE)

Reference :

Taxonomy           Edible     Chemical Composition :NA   Tissue Culture