Mitenga (Bengal)
Bambusa longispiculata

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Technical Data - Mature Plant Specifications

Common Name: Mitenga (Bengal)
Also known as: Thaikwa (Burma)

Height: 18 m
Pole Diameter: 10 mm
Cold Tolerance: 5 DegC
Species Origin: Bangladesh/India

Description

Forms beautiful open clumps with well spaced (modified unicaespitose) straight ivory-striped greyish green culms. Large decorative leaves. Structurally good. Spectacular light blue/green edible shoots are striped cream and have a scattering of strong dark black contrasting hairs on the culm leaf and a wrinkled hairless fairly flat broad blade.
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