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Because bamboo can grow on otherwise marginal land, bamboo can be profitably cultivated in many degraded lands. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Moreover, because of the rapid growth, bamboo is an effective climate change mitigation and carbon sequestration crop, absorbing between 100 and 400 tonnes of carbon per hectare (40–160 tonnes per acre).
Arundinaria is a genus of bamboo in the grass family the members of which are referred to generally as cane. [1] [2] Arundinaria is the only bamboo native to North America, with a native range from Maryland south to Florida and west to the southern Ohio Valley and Texas.
This bamboo is a perennial grass with a rounded, hollow stem which can exceed 7 cm (2.8 in) in diameter and grow to a height of 10 m (33 ft). It grows from a large network of thick rhizomes. The lance-shaped leaves are up to 30 cm (12 in) long and 4 cm (1.6 in) wide.
Bamboos grow quickly and abundant, often preventing sunlight from touching the ground, making it difficult for other plants to grow in bamboo forests which is why you will only see bamboo trees in these forests and rarely any other type of vegetation. [2] and creating a unique landscape of dense bamboo.
Arundinaria appalachiana, commonly known as hill cane, is a woody bamboo native to the Appalachian Mountains in the southeastern United States.The plant was elevated to the species level in 2006 based on new morphological and genetic information and was previously treated as a variety of Arundinaria tecta.
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 bamboo in the United States and has been introduced into cultivation around the world. It is densely foliated, growing up to 20 metres (65 feet) tall in good conditions, and can have a diameter of up to 10 ...
Dominant trees of the lowland forests are Mongolian oak (Quercus mongolica), Lime trees (), and Ash trees (). [1] The main underbrush is Sasa, a form of dwarf bamboo.The ecoregion is generally too cold to support the Japanese beech that is common on Honshu to the south.
A very tall, large-culmed, grayish-green bamboo, it grows in clumps consisting of a large number of closely growing culms, and typically reaches a height of 30 meters (98 feet), but one clump in Arunachal Pradesh, India reached a height of 42 meters (137 feet).