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Common bamboo has a wide variety of uses, including the stems used as fuel and the leaves used as fodder, [7] [30] though a large amount of ingestion of leaves is known to cause neurological disorder among horses. [7] The worldwide production and trade of B. vulgaris is considerable, though no statistics are available. [7] It also has some ...
Phyllostachydis is a Latin adjective that is derived from the Phyllostachys bamboo genus. It may refer to: Folium Phyllostachydis, a bamboo leaves medicinal preparation. It also refers to several bambusicolous species. Aithaloderma phyllostachydis, Hara, 1931, a fungus species of the genus Aithaloderma
Despite the common name "sacred bamboo", it is not a bamboo but an erect evergreen shrub up to 2 m (7 ft) tall by 1.5 m (5 ft) wide, with numerous, usually unbranched stems growing from ground level. The glossy leaves are sometimes deciduous in colder areas, 50–100 cm (20–39 in) long, bi- or tri- pinnately compound, with the individual ...
Tabasheer (Hindustani: तबाशीर or طباشیر) or Banslochan (बंसलोचन, بنسلوچن), also spelt as Tabachir or Tabashir, is a translucent white substance, composed mainly of silica and water with traces of lime and potash, obtained from the nodal joints of some species of bamboo. [1]
Smilax laurifolia is a species of flowering plant in the greenbrier family known by the common names laurel greenbrier, [2] laurelleaf greenbrier, bamboo vine, and blaspheme vine. It is native to the southeastern United States, where it occurs along the Gulf and Atlantic coastal plains from Texas to New Jersey , the range extending inland to ...
Shibataea kumasaca (倭竹), the ruscus-leaf bamboo [1] or ruscus bamboo, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family, native to mountain slopes in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces in China, [4] and widely cultivated elsewhere. Growing to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) tall, it is a compact, clump-forming evergreen bamboo. [5]
Snake oil is the most widely known Chinese medicine in the west, due to extensive marketing in the west in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and wild claims of its efficacy to treat many maladies. [31] [32] Snake oil is a traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain by rubbing it on joints as a liniment. [31]
Phyllostachys (/ ˌ f ɪ l oʊ ˈ s t æ k ɪ s,-l ə-,-ˈ s t eɪ-/ [2] [3]) is a genus of Asian bamboo in the grass family. [4] [5] [6] Many of the species are found in central and southern China, with a few species in northern Indochina and in the Himalayas. Some of the species have become naturalized in parts of Asia, South America ...