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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Poaceae (Gramineae) (イネ科) > Dendrocalamus giganteus
Dendrocalamus Nees (マチク)Daimachiku (ダイマチク, 大麻竹), giant bamboo or dragon bambooLifeform: tall, perennial bamboo, occasionally becoming 45 m (usually 30 m) in height Distribution: Madagascar - India - Myanmar - Malaysia grown mostly in greenhouses in the case of Japan Habitat: in forests and on river banks |
Use: edible (young shoot), construction and weaving (culm)
Synonyms:
Sinocalamus giganteus (Munro) Keng f. |
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[1-3] in the glasshouse of Kyoto Botanical Gardens, western Japan, on September 17 2022.