Spiny Bamboo PRODUCT NAME
Bambusa spinosa Roxb. SCIENTIFIC NAME
| Common Name: | Kawayan tinik |
| Local Name: | Dugian, Kabugauan, Marurugi, Rugian (Bicol); Kawayan, Kawayan totoo, Kawayan tinik (Tagalog); Aon-o, Batakan, Paua, Kawayan-gid (Bisaya); Kawayan si-itan (Iloko); Bayog (Zambales); Lam-nuan (Isinai); Baugin (Pampanga); Pasingan (Cagayan); Cana espina (Spanish). |
| Family: | Poaceae alt. Gramineae |
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| Product Description: | Reaches a height of about 25m and a culms diameter of 20 centimeters. The internodes are usually hollow, and from 40-60cm in length. The culms have thick walls, becoming progressively thicker toward the lower of the culms. It occasionally happens that the lower internodes are so thick walled that they become almost or quite solid. The stem contains a large amount of silica and sometimes internodes are completely filled with a hard, white, siliceous mass. . The basal portions of which are surrounded to a height of very of from 2-3m by a densely interlaced thicket of very spiny branches |
| NTFP Classification: | Crafts and furniture making, Other commercial and industrial uses |
DISTRIBUTION
| Countries Found: | Philippines |
| Description: | This species has been cultivated quite extensively in clearings which have since been abandoned, so that considerable areas are now covered by virtual forests of this species |
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| Partners: | Bureau of Forestry, Philippines |
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| External Links: | http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?6416 |
