Bambusa bambos
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In the botanical Gardens of Kerala Forest research institute, veluppadam, kerala, india | |
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Bambusa bambos |
Bambusa bambos, or the Indian Thorny Bamboo, is a species of clumping bamboo native to southern Asia (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Assam, Indochina). It is also naturalized in Seychelles, Central America, West Indies, Java, Malaysia, Maluku, Philippines.[2][3]
Plant is known as "කටු උණ - katu una" in Sri Lanka, by Sinhalese people.
References
- ^ "Bambusa bambos (L.) Voss". The Plant List, RBG Kew. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Ohrnberger, Dieter (1999). The bamboos of the world: annotated nomenclature and literature of the species and the higher and lower taxa. Elsevier. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-444-50020-5.