World Bamboo Day

World Bamboo Day

World Bamboo Day on september 18th .

Sympodial Bambusetum

Kerala Forest Research Institute Sympodial Bambusetum The Bambusetum was established during 1988-95 as part of the IDRC Bamboo project in the campus of Field Research Centre, Veluppadam which at present houses about 63 different species of bamboos. .

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.Information on clump development, culm production and growth parameters like culm length, culm girth, etc. are being gathered, computed and analyzed for productivity of these valuable Bamboos. . .... .

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The bambusetum still on expansion will have an exhaustive collection of Sympodial bamboos that can be grown in a typical agro-climatic zone and to gather invaluable scientific information on bamboo growth in our state. The Bambusetam will also serve as genetic resource for future crop improvement programmes and for forest managers and farmers.The KFRI Bamboosetum has 63species. Of this, 55 species are in the Field Research Centre, Velupadam and the remaining 8 species (3 of them yet to be identified) in a high elevation site at Devikulam..      . .

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species of bamboo Arundinaria griffithiana, Bambusa affinis, Bambusa albociliata, Bambusa albostriata, Bambusa balcooa, Bambusa bambos, Bambusa bambos var. gigantean, Bambusa blumeanas, Bambusa dissimilator, Bambusa glaucesence, Bambusa longispiculata, Bambusa membranacus, Bambusa multiplex, Bambusa multiplex (yellow), Bambusa nana, Bambusa nutans, Bambusa oldhami, Bambusa pellida, Bambusa polymorpha, Bambusa textiles, Bambusa tulda, Bambusa vulgaris, Bambusa vulgaris var. striata, Bambusa vulgaris var. wamin, Cephalostachyum fussianum, Cephalostachyum pergracile, Dendrocalamus asper, Dendrocalamus brandisii, Dendrocalamus giganteus, Dendrocalamus hamiltonii, Dendrocalamus longispathus, Dendrocalamus sikkimensis, Dendrocalamus strictus, Dinochloa machlandii, Gauda angustifolia, Gigantochloa atrovialacea, Gigantochloa attar, Gigantochloa macrostachya, Gigantochloa mangong, Melocanna bacciferea, Ochlandra ebrateata, Ochlandra scriptoria, Ochlandra talbotii, Ochlandra travancorica, Ochlandra wightii, Oxytenanthera abyssinica, Oxytenanthera albociliata, Oxytenanthera species, Pseudoxytenanthera bourdilonii, Pseudoxytenanthera stocksii, Pseudoxytenanthera ritcheyi, Thyrsostaschys oliveri, Thyrsostaschys siamensis, Tienostachyum attenuatum, Tienostachyum dulloa, Phyllostachys bambusoides, Phyllostachys assamica, Phyllostchys sulphurea, Phyllostchys pubescence, Phyllostchys reticulata, Phyllostchys sps, Phyllostchys sps, Phyllostchys sps ... ...