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Bambusa tulda
Also called Bengal Bamboo, Spineless Indian Bamboo
Bambusa tulda, Indian timber bamboo or Bengal bamboo, is a large, fast-growing clumping bamboo from the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, grown for timber, paper pulp and construction. It needs warm, wet tropical conditions and room for its large clumps.
Bambusa tulda, or Indian timber bamboo (alternatively spineless Indian bamboo or Bengal bamboo), is considered to be one of the most useful of bamboo species. It is native to the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Tibet, and Yunnan, and naturalized in Iraq, Puerto Rico, and parts of South America.
B. tulda is used extensively by the paper pulp industry in India. It can grow to a height of 15 m and a thickness of 8 cm. The single most important fact about Bambusa tulda is its incredible tensile strength; up to 60,000 pounds (27,000 Kg) per square inch. It is commonly found in southeastern Asia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bambusa tulda by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
