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Bambusa Arundinesia

One of the preferred plantation species.

Introduction
Bamboos are very common all over India. Bamboos are integral not only to the India but that of the entire Asia. Bamboo is must in human life from birth to death.
The wide range of their uses qualifies this group of species to be the one foremost associated with the mainstay of rural life and culture in our country. Its versatility has led to the coinage of such terms as Bamboo Culture, Green Gold, Poor mans Timber, Friend of the people and cradle to coffin Timber. In fact Bamboo can be used as a substitute of timber in many respects.

Bambusa Arundinesia
In India Bambusa Arundinesia is the most popular and multipurpose species. Which can easily grow and survive from top to bottom of the India. In India only more than 136 varieties are popular, among that Arundinesia is most popular because of its multipurpose use. With or with out irrigation Arundinesia will survive and grows easily.

We given importance to this variety because of its use, growth and other un comparable characters.  Arundinesia is not suitable for too drought prone areas, but most suitable for riverbanks, water logging areas and minimum rainfall areas.

Distribution and Habitat in India
Bamboos grow from sea level in the tropics to 4000 mtr above the sea level in the temprature region, although bamboos are more common to the tropics, they also occur naturally in subtropical and tempr zones of the world except in Europe.

The geographical distribution of bamboos is governed largely by the conditions of rainfall, trempr, altitude and soil. Most of the bamboos require a tempr from 8 degree celcius to 40 degree celcius, a minimum annual rainfall of 800mm and high atmosphere humidity for good growth.

They form an important constituent of many deciduous and ever green forests. In future bamboos occur as pure crops but are generally found as an understorey in tropical dry deciduous, mountain subtropical, mountain wet temperature and Himalayan wet temperature forests. The genera bambusa & dendracalamus are found under tropical conditions. Arundinesia and its allies occur in the temperature region and are by far most common on high elevations in the western and eastern Himalayas.

There are many as 75 genera and 1200 species distributed all over the world mostly confined to the tropical parts of south eat area. Tropical Asia can be regarded as the center of diversity for bamboo with as many 45 genera and 75 species in India there are about 130 species of bamboo. Among that bambusa and dendracalamus are most common and familiar.
Bamboos are usually found in moist valleys, sheltered depressions, along streams and the lower hill slopes but occasionally also occur on higher slopes and hill tops. They usually occur mixed with or under tree species.

Totally bamboo the most important renewable plant resource grows naturally and is also being cultivated since time immemorial. India is endowed with a west number of bamboo species. Among that bambusa arundinesia is good for commercial cultivation.

Botany
Bamboos differ greatly in size and form, while in the common bamboo,bambusa arundinesia is tall and grows up to a height of 30m. Dendracalamus strictus are shrubby caphaostachyum capitatum and arundinesia prainil are stragglers and melocalamus compactiflorus and schizostachyum species are climber and slender. Melocanna bambusides, bambusa nutans and pseudostachyum polymorphum are creepers and microbambusa mactostachys is herbaceous.
The bambusa arundinesia clums generally do not bear branches to a considerable hight above the base. How ever bambusa Arundinesia and bambusa tulda have branchlets which arranged after natively on the culms.

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