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Dendrocalamus Sinicus
''Dendrocalamus sinicus'', the dragon bamboo, is a gigantic clumping bamboo native to Yunnan Province of China and to Laos. It has the largest culm (botany), culms of any known species of bamboo; up to wide with culm walls up to thick and the culm up to in height. Each culm can weigh up to apiece.http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showphoto.php?photo=3249&size=big&cat= A good photograph of a mature culm. A plant eventually consists of about one hundred culms. This species was unknown to science prior to 1980, although well known to the citizens of Yunnan and Laos for centuries. References Dendrocalamus, sinicus Plants described in 1982 {{bamboo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamboo
Bamboos are a diverse group of evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. The origin of the word "bamboo" is uncertain, but it probably comes from the Dutch or Portuguese language, which originally borrowed it from Malay or Kannada. In bamboo, as in other grasses, the internodal regions of the stem are usually hollow and the vascular bundles in the cross-section are scattered throughout the stem instead of in a cylindrical arrangement. The dicotyledonous woody xylem is also absent. The absence of secondary growth wood causes the stems of monocots, including the palms and large bamboos, to be columnar rather than tapering. Bamboos include some of the fastest-growing plants in the world, due to a unique rhizome-dependent system. Certain species of bamboo can grow within a 24-hour period, at a rate of almost an hour (equivalent to 1 mm every 90 seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
