Common name: Calcutta Bamboo, hard bamboo, iron bamboo, male bamboo, solid bamboo, stone bamboo • Hindi: बांस bans • Manipuri: খোকৱা khokwa • Marathi: बांस, बास bans, उढा udha, वेळू velu • Tamil: சிறுமூங்கில் ciru-munkil, கல்மூங்கில் kal-munkil, காட்டுமூங்கில் kattu-munkil • Malayalam: കല്ലന്മുള kallanmula • Telugu: పోతువెదురు potu veduru • Kannada: ಬಿದಿರು bidiru • Bengali: বাঁশ bamsa, Karali • Oriya: bans • Konkani: वासो vaaso • Urdu: بانس bansa • Gujarati: બાંસ bans • Mizo: tur-sing • Sanskrit: वंश vansha • Nepali: कबान बाँस kaban bans
Botanical name: Dendrocalamus strictus Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Bambusa stricta, Bambos stricta
Calcutta Bamboo is a deciduous densely tufted
bamboom with culms 8-16 m high, 2.5-8 cm in diameter, pale blue green
when young, dull green or yellow on maturity, much curved above half of
its height. The most peculiar aspect of the plant is the solid culm as
there is no hollow part in it. Leaves are linear-lanceshaped, small in
dry localities, up to 25 cm long and 3 cm broad in moist areas, rounded
at the base into a short petiole, tip is
sharply tapering with twisted point. Inflorescence is a large panicle of
large dense globular heads 4-5 cm apart. Long stamens protrude out of the
flowers.
Identification credit: Hemanth Tripathi
| Photographed at Nagla block of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai. |
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