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Bambusa procera is a species of bamboo in the tribe Bambuseae; it was described from Vietnam by Chevalier and Camus. It is a included in the grass family, with no subspecies listed in the Catalogue of Life.
The recorded distribution includes Cambodia and Vietnam: where the plant is called lồ ô; it is smaller than B. balcooa (tre lồ ô), which is more extensively used for construction.
In Vietnam's Bình Dương province, it is used for food, in construction as timber, and to make ornaments and handicraft.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bambusa procera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
