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Phyllostachys bambusoides
Also called Giant Timber Bamboo, Giant Japanese Timber Bamboo
Madake, or giant timber bamboo, is a tall, running (spreading) evergreen bamboo from China and possibly Japan, valued for its straight, strong, flexible culms. It needs room and root barriers to keep its spreading rhizomes in check.
Phyllostachys bambusoides, commonly called madake, giant timber bamboo, or Japanese timber bamboo, is a species of flowering plant in the bamboo subfamily of the grass family Poaceae, native to China, and possibly also to Japan.
In Asia, Phyllostachys bambusoides, known in Japan as madake, is one of the preferred bamboos for construction and furniture manufacture. Its properties also make it useful in a number of traditional Japanese arts and crafts:
Golden bamboo · Yellow grove bamboo · Tortoise shell bamboo · Black bamboo · Running giant bamboo · Bamboo
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