Flora of the Nilgiris

Habit : A tall erect green bamboo with spines.

Habitat and Distribution : A ready colonizer. Upto 1000m, in moist deciduous to semi evergreen forests. India (except in the Himalayas and Indo-gangetic plain).

Indigenous Information : Used for construction and basket making. Seeds collected, dehusked and cooked like rice. Shoots edible. The sheath around the stems have salt like deposits at the base. Elephants eat the whole plant. Jungle fowl and doves eat the seeds.

Other relevent information : Flowers only once in its lifetime (approx. 60 years).

Field Tips : Culms thick and erect; culm sheath triangular with spiny hairs. Leaf sheath , glabrous, ligule short.

 

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Names:

English : Bamboo
Irula : Peria mungil, Billia moonga
Tamil : Mungil, Periya mungil, Peru varai mungi

Malayalam : Mula, Illi

Flower:

In compound panicles.

Fruit :

Grain oblong or linear oblong, furrowed on one side.