Bambusa textilis

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Weaver's bamboo

PoaceaeShoots

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Shoots

Edible Parts: Shoots Edible Uses: Edible Portion: Shoots.

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant. It is usually cultivated along rivers and near villages at low altitudes in southern China. In XTBG Yunnan.

Asia, Australia, China*, Colombia, Puerto Rico, South America, Vietnam,

Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bolivia, Brazil, Bhutan, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Georgia, French Guiana, Guyana, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Suriname, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen

How to Identify

A bamboo. It grows 8-10 m tall. The stems are 3-5 cm across. The tips are slightly drooping. The internodes are 40-70 cm long. They are white and powdery when young. The leaf blades are 9-17 cm long by 1-2 cm wide.

How to Grow

Tolerates rigorous pruning of tops to 1m. Tight footprint to 1m. Carbon Farming Solutions - Cultivation: minor global crop. Management: managed multistem (Describes the non-destructive management systems that are used in cultivation). .

Propagation: By dividing the rootball, rhizomes, tubers, corms or bulbs (including offsets)

Medicinal Uses

None Known

Other Uses

Biomass Fodder Hedge Straw Carbon Farming Solutions - Industrial Crop: biomass (Crops grown for non-food uses. Industrial crops provide resources in three main categories: materials, chemicals, and energy. Traditional materials include lumber and thatch, paper and cardboard, and textiles) [1-1]. Fodder: bank. Other Systems: strip intercrop, multistrata. Good hedging/screening in full sun to part shade. Tolerates rigorous pruning of tops to 1m. Tight footprint to 1m. A good specimen plant. Good for pots. Special Uses Carbon Farming Food Forest Hedge

Wikipedia

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Bambusa textilis, also known as slender bamboo, clumping bamboo and weaver's bamboo, is a species of bamboo in the Poaceae (grasses) family that is native to China. The subspecies var. gracilis is heavily cultivated in Australia.

Other Information

It is usually cultivated.

Names & Synonyms

Slender Weaver's Bamboo, Weaver's Bamboo

Bambusa annulata W. T. Lin & Z. J. Fengand several others

References (3)

Kew Plants of the World Online
Mt Cootha Botanical gardens sign.
Zeven, A. C. & de West, J. M. J., 1982, Dictionary of cultivated plants and their regions of diversity. Wageningen. p 36