Common bamboo
ముళ్ళవెదురుമഞ്ഞമുള
Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. ex J.C.Wendl.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Poaceae
Also called Golden bamboo, Stripe bamboo, Painted bamboo
Formerly Arundarbor blancoi, Arundarbor fera, Arundarbor mitis, Arundarbor monogyna, and 19 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- BambooKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Assam to China (Yunnan) and Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -3 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: height, spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Bambú asiático
- root
- cupamu
- Chinese
- 龍頭竹, 泰山竹, 銀竹
- Portuguese
- Bambu-comum, Bambu-listrado
- French
- Bambou commun
- Finnish
- paperibambu
- Japanese
- タイサンチク, ダイサンチク
- Indonesian
- Bambu Ampel
- Chinese (China)
- 龙头竹
- Italian
- bambù comune
- Thai
- ไผ่เหลือง
- Russian
- Бамбук обыкновенный
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Bambusa vulgaris (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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