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“I eat bamboo shoots, shelter under

bamboo roofs, am transported via

bamboo rafts, cook with bamboo
Bamboo utensils, wear bamboo-woven

clothes, read bamboo books, write
Bonsai on bamboo paper, walk in bamboo

shoes—I truly cannot live a day

without bamboo. “

— Su Dongpo

Giant Timber Bamboo (Bambusa oldhamii), Moso
Bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens), Long-shoot Bamboo
(Bambusa dolichoclada), Ma Bamboo (Dendrocalamus
latiflorus), Thorny Bamboo (Bambusa stenostachya)
and other economic bamboo species. Yushania niita-
kayamensis is a special bamboo species distributed in
mountain areas as high as 3,300 meters which is the
highest altitude bamboo species occurring in the Asian
West Pacific region, next to the Himalayan bamboo.
The upper portion of bamboo has stems, or culms,
branches and leaves. A culm base is connected to under-
ground stems or rhizomes. Rhizomes divide into nodes,
the elongated internode on the underground roots
is called the fibrous root, which is the real root of the
bamboo. Bamboo can be classified by the flowers, under-
ground stem (rhizome), bamboo sheath, bamboo stalks,
bamboo leaves and growth conditions.
A relatively simple and common classification of
bamboo is based on the underground stems (rhizome);
it is divided into two categories:
The bamboo cultivated in tropical or subtropical areas
are called Tropical Clumping Bamboo. The rhizome
of this particular bamboo is closely connected and is
formed like a ball. In this category, there are Ma Bamboo
(Dendrocalamus latiflorus), Giant Timber Bamboo
(Dendrocalamopsis oldhamii), Long-shoot Bamboo
(Bambusa dolichoclada), Hedge Bamboo (Bambusa multi-
plex), Naibun Bamboo (Arthrostylidium naibunensis),
Greenstripe Common Bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris),
Purple Bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra), etc.
Bamboo cultivation in temperate zones creates bamboo
with very long underground rhizomes that are relatively
resistant to harsh, cold weather. This bamboo is called
dispersed culm bamboo, or Running Bamboo, such as
Moso Bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), Makino Bamboo
(Phyllostachys makinoi), Golden Bamboo (Phyllostachys

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