Taxon: Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. ex J. C. Wendl.

Common names:

• common bamboo   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• golden bamboo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• long tou zhu   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• grand bambou   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – French
  
• gemeiner Bambus   (Source: Bamboo World ) – German
  
• daisan-chiku   (Source: Bamboo World ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• bambu-verde   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• bambú común   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: boundary/barrier/support   (fide Pl Res SEAs 7:74. 1995; Dict Gard; Bamboo World)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Materials: cane   (primarily for making furniture, paper fide Pl Res SEAs 7:74. 1995; Bamboo World)
  
• Materials: fiber   (primarily for making furniture, paper fide Pl Res SEAs 7:74. 1995; Bamboo World)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Yunnan

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Hispaniola; Jamaica
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica
  Brazil: Brazil

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Philippines
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica
  Brazil: Brazil

• probable origin s.e. Asia

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581. [lists as B. vulgaris Schrad. ex J. C. Wendl.].
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. [lists as B. vulgaris Schrad. ex J. C. Wendl.].
• Burger, W. C., ed. 1971–. Flora costaricensis. [lists as B. vulgaris Schrad. ex J. C. Wendl.].
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. [lists as B. vulgaris Schrad. ex J. C. Wendl.].
• Dransfield, S. & E. A. Widjaja, eds. 1995. Bamboos. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 7:74. [lists as B. vulgaris Schrad. ex J. C. Wendl.].
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. [lists as B. vulgaris Schrad. ex J. C. Wendl.].
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. [lists as B. vulgaris Schrad. ex J. C. Wendl.].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Ohrnberger, D. 1999. The bamboos of the world. [lists as B. vulgaris Schrad. ex J. C. Wendl.].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Roxas, C. A. 1998. Conservation and improvement of bamboo genetic resources in the Philippines. In: Vivekanandan, K. et al., Bamboo and rattan genetic resources in certain Asian countries. 103–136.
• Stapleton, C. 1994. Bamboos of Bhutan: an illustrated guide.
• Wang Dajun & Shen Shao-Jin. 1987. Bamboos of China. [lists as B. vulgaris Schrad.].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. [lists as B. vulgaris J. C. Wendl.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Bambusa vulgaris.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Bambusa vulgaris.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Bambusa vulgaris.

Synonyms:

• (=) Bambusa vulgaris var. vittata Rivière
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)

Check other web resources for Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. ex J. C. Wendl.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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