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Definition of Bambusa vulgaris
1. Noun. Extremely vigorous bamboo having thin-walled culms striped green and yellow; so widely cultivated that native area is uncertain.
Terms within: Bamboo Shoot
Generic synonyms: Bamboo
Group relationships: Bambusa, Genus Bambusa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bambusa Vulgaris
Literary usage of Bambusa vulgaris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants: Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1891)
"It likes rich, moist soil, and delights on river-banks ; it is of less height
than Bambusa vulgaris, also sends up from the root numerous stems, ..."
2. Reading List on Papermaking Materials by Clarence Jay West (1921)
"Bambusa vulgaris. Yellow and green striped bamboo. Cross, Bevan, and King, page 49.
Griffin and Little, page 132. Routledge, 1875. Watt, vol. I, 393. ..."
3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"Bambusa vulgaris, U'mdl. Its stems are from 20 to 30 feet long, and as thick as
a child's arm. In one of his reports, Dr. Cleghorn mentions ..."
4. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1900)
"... an altitude of 2000 feet above the sea, one or two, such as the Bambusa vulgaris
or taisan-chik:,, are not strictly hardy here, and less so in England. ..."
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