Bambusa tuldoides Munro

ബുദ്ധാസ് ബെല്ലി

Family : Poaceae

Synonym : Bambusa ventricosa McClure

Common Names : Buddha's belly bamboo

Flowering Period : Not specified

Distribution : Native of China and Thailand, introduced elsewhere

Habitat : Grown as ornamental plant

Uses : Hedge plant, Ayurvedic, ornamental, tender stem edible, bonsai material

Key Characters :

Culms tufted, to 5 m tall; internodes often obliquely swollen, nearly as wide as long; successive internodes forming a slightly zig-zag pattern; long slender horizontal branches frequent from lower nodes of such culms. Culm-sheaths somewhat flushed with purple when young, quite hairless on the back. Leaf-blades to 15 x 2 cm, lower ones with broad truncate base, stalks short, lower surface very shortly soft-hairy (velvety to the touch), colour as upper surface.