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“I eat bamboo shoots, shelter under bamboo roofs, am transported via bamboo rafts, cook with bamboo utensils, wear bamboo-woven clothes, read bamboo books, write 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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