Sowing months
Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Full sun to part shade
Water
High rainfall
Mature size
10–20 m
First harvest
Culms from year four
Family
Poaceae
Where it grows
ground
Good for
biodiversity
Sow in
monsoon
Care
A running bamboo — contain it or keep it far from beds.
The bamboo that covers Mizoram, and whose mass flowering brings the rat floods.
Growing it
A running bamboo — contain it or keep it far from beds.
What it is for
Basketry, housing and paper; the dominant north-eastern bamboo.