Giant Bamboo - Bambusa arundinacea - 10 Seeds SimplySalad with a centre of diversity

with a centre of diversity in Southern Africa

Sepals may be any colour

7-10 m (max

it is regarded as endangered

The spice is generally made from ground seeds of the plant

Giant Bamboo - Bambusa arundinacea - 10 Seeds SimplySalad with a centre of diversityTall woody bamboo, stems thorny, numerous, tufted, up to 40 m tall, curving at top; branches numerous, internodes 30 to 45 cm long, prominent, bearing in lower parts of stems dense half whorls of stiff, naked, horizontal branches, armed with recurved, stout spines; lowest nodes rooting; stem sheaths leathery, orange yellow when young, hairy outside, shining and ribbed inside, 30 to 45 cm long; blade triangular, glabrous, covered with a brown felt of