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09 November 2015
Unidentified Thai Species
Melocalamus sp. • BS-0599
Melocalamus sp.
Distribution: Eastern THAILAND, wild.
Culm size: Height ca. 15 m, diameter ca. 4 cm.
Uses: Culms used locally for woven bamboo hats.
Comments: Flowers and seeds unknown.
Specimens: BS-0599 (living plant), received as "ไผ่เกรียบ (phai kriab)" from cultivated stock of Nana Phan
Nursery, Prachin Buri, 1 Dec. 2010, said to originate from mountains of nearby
Khao Yai National Park where this bamboo grows wild, abundant and widespread.
Characters: Habit an open clumper. Rhizome pachymorph, long.
Culm-internodes thin-walled, easily splittable. Culm-nodes with a ring of
patent hairs.
Cultivation requirements: Prefers partial shade.
Provisional identification: The species is tentatively assigned
to Melocalamus as there are some similarities with plants of Melocalamus
compactiflorus.
Comments: The Thai name, ไผ่เกรียบ (phai
kriab), was applied to several different species, among them Melocanna
arundina, but BS-0599 is certainly not this species.
05 November 2015
Young Shoot Of Guadua angustifolia 'Bicolor', 3 November 2015.
Guadua angustifolia var. bicolor, Guadua angustifolia 'Joseph de Jumonville', Guadua angustifolia 'Striata' — Striped Guadua Bamboo — {} [431] From Colombia, South America. Stems with yellow stripes. Plant available for sale 2016.