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Arundinaria
Arundinaria (river cane, switch cane) is a genus of four temperate bamboo species in Poaceae, the only New World genus of tribe Arundinarieae, native to central and eastern USA, formerly canebrake-forming and now under restoration.
Bamboo
Bamboo (Bambusoideae): woody grasses of Poaceae with hollow culms, 1885 species in 144 genera, native to all continents except Europe and Antarctica, growing up to 60 cm per day and flowering synchronously on 50-year cycles.
Bamboo blossom
Bamboo blossom: flowering in Bambusoideae grasses, also called gregarious flowering or masting. Species flower once after 3–150-year cycles, often synchronously, then die; events trigger rodent outbreaks and famine in northeast India.
Bamboo construction
Bamboo construction uses whole round culms or engineered bamboo as structural material. Key facts: ISO 22156:2021 limits round-bamboo buildings to two storeys and 7 m; joints are the main difficulty; bamboo floors emit 12 vs 160 kg CO2-eq/m2 for concrete; Hong Kong bamboo scaffolding tradition.
Bamboo in East Asian culture
Bamboo in East Asian culture is a system of moral and literary symbols in which bamboo's hollow stem, straight growth, and winter survival stand for integrity, humility, and endurance.
Bamboo mosaic virus
Bamboo mosaic virus (BaMV, 竹嵌紋病毒), a Potexvirus (Alphaflexiviridae) with a 6,366-nt positive-sense RNA genome, infects bamboo causing mosaic disease and bamboo-nail shoot lesions, and serves as a plant expression vector for pharmaceuticals and bamboo gene studies.
Bamboo shoot
Bamboo shoot, takenoko, the young culm of bamboo eaten as a vegetable across Asia; nutritious but containing taxiphyllin cyanogenic glycosides, so shoots must be boiled, fermented, or canned before eating.
Bambooworking
Bambooworking is the craft of splitting and weaving bamboo into baskets, mats, and furniture, often alongside rattan (wicker). Known through Chinese, Japanese (Beppu, Living National Treasures), and Southeast Asian traditions, now extending to composites and architecture.
Bambusa
Bambusa Schreb. is a genus of clumping woody bamboos (Poaceae, Bambusoideae, Bambusinae) native from tropical and subtropical Asia to northern Australia, with roughly 70-153 accepted species, hollow jointed culms, six stamens, and widely cultivated species such as B. vulgaris and B. bambos.
Bambusa vulgaris
Bambusa vulgaris (common or yellow bamboo), a clumping tropical bamboo native from Assam to Indo-China, culms to about 13 m, hollow, green, or yellow; widely naturalized, used in construction, composites, and food, with compressive strength up to about 64 MPa dry.
Bansuri (बाँसुरी)
Bansuri (बाँसुरी), North Indian keyless side-blown bamboo flute with six or seven holes, 30–100 cm long; adapted for Hindustani classical music by Pannalal Ghosh and associated with Krishna.
Chinese bamboo weaving
Chinese bamboo weaving (竹编, zhú biān) is a traditional Chinese craft that splits bamboo into fine strips and weaves them into baskets, mats, furniture, and decorative objects, added to China's intangible cultural heritage list in 2008.
Chusquea
Chusquea Kunth (1822) is the most diverse genus of Neotropical woody bamboos (Poaceae, Bambusoideae, Chusqueinae), with about 200 species from Mexico to southern South America, solid culms, and long-interval mass flowering.
Dendrocalamus
Dendrocalamus is a genus of about 80 accepted species of tropical Asian woody bamboos (Poaceae), erected in 1834 with type species D. strictus; best known is giant bamboo D. asper, used for construction, pulp, and edible shoots.
Dendrocalamus asper
Dendrocalamus asper, giant bamboo or sweet bamboo (马来甜龙竹, buluh betong), a tropical clumping bamboo native from Bangladesh to Taiwan and Malesia, grown 15-30 m tall for construction culms and edible shoots.
Dizi (笛子) (instrument)
Dizi (笛子), the Chinese transverse bamboo flute, also called di or hengdi; distinguished by the dimo membrane (mirliton) over an extra hole giving a bright buzzing tone; six finger holes, bangdi and qudi regional types, central to opera, sizhu, and modern Chinese orchestra.
Gigantochloa
Gigantochloa Kurz ex Munro is a genus of about 71 accepted tropical Asian clumping bamboos (Poaceae), native from S. China to Malesia, with tube-fused stamen filaments, used for construction, crafts, and edible shoots.
Guadua
Guadua is a genus of thorny, clumping, woody bamboo native from Mexico to southern tropical America and Trinidad, best known through Guadua angustifolia, the timber bamboo used in regulated construction in Colombia and Ecuador.
Guadua angustifolia
Guadua angustifolia, known as Colombian timber bamboo or simply guadua, is a large thorny bamboo native to South America and its most important timber bamboo.
Iizuka Shōkansai
Iizuka Shōkansai (飯塚 小玕斎, 1919–2004), real name Iizuka Shigetoshi, was a Japanese bamboo weaving artist named a Living National Treasure in 1982, the second bamboo artist so honored.
Japanese bamboo weaving
Japanese bamboo weaving (竹編み): the craft of interlacing split or whole bamboo culms into baskets and sculpture, practiced since the Jomon period and centered in Kyoto, Beppu, Osaka, and Kantō, with six Living National Treasure masters.
Phyllostachys
Phyllostachys (刚竹属) is a genus of running woody bamboos in Poaceae, native from the Himalaya to southern China and Taiwan, with two branches per node and leptomorph rhizomes; economically important for Moso bamboo, timber, pulp, and shoots, and regulated as invasive running bamboo in parts of North America.
Phyllostachys edulis
Phyllostachys edulis, moso bamboo (毛竹, maozhu; Japanese 孟宗竹), a large temperate running bamboo native to central and southern China and Taiwan; synonyms P. pubescens and P. heterocycla; China's most important bamboo, ~4.43 million ha, grown for edible shoots and timber culms.
Puccinia melanocephala
Puccinia melanocephala, the brown rust fungus of sugarcane (distinct from P. kuehnii orange rust), spread from Africa into the Americas in 1978 and causes 10-50% yield losses, managed mainly by resistant varieties.
Shakuhachi (尺八)
Shakuhachi (尺八), the Japanese end-blown bamboo flute of Zen komusō monks, introduced from China in the Nara period, with Shōsōin examples from 752, Fuke sect honkyoku repertoire, and Meiji-era secular schools.
Shōno Shōunsai
Shōno Shōunsai (生野祥雲斎, 1904–1974), real name Shōno Akihei, was a Japanese bamboo craft artist from Beppu who became the first Living National Treasure of bamboo art in 1967.
World Bamboo Organization
World Bamboo Organization (WBO), U.S. 501(c)(6) trade association formed 2005, successor to the International Bamboo Association (1992); runs World Bamboo Congresses, World Bamboo Day (Sept 18), led by Michel Abadie.