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Bambusa oldhamii (giant timber bamboo)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Bambusa oldhamii, known as giant timber bamboo or Oldham's bamboo, is a large species of bamboo. It is the most common and widely grown in the United States and has been introduced into cultivation around the world. It is densely foliated, growing up to 20 m (65 feet) tall in good conditions and can have a diameter of up to 10 cm (4 inches).
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Attributes

Diameter [1]  4.0 inches (10.16 cm)
Height [1]  55 feet (16.764 m)
Growth Form [1]  Bunch
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Bamboo
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 9 Low Temperature: 20 F° (-6.7 C°) → 30 F° (-1.1 C°)
Light Preference [1]  Full Sun

Predators

Kuwanaspis vermiformis[4]
Lethe europa (Bamboo tree brown butterfly)[5]
Penthema formosanum[5]
Rutherfordia major (large snow-scale)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1American Bamboo Society Species List
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0