Schizostachyum glaucifolium

Botanical Description

Schizostachyum glaucifolium is an evergreen, clump-forming bamboo with woody culms 3 - 15 metres long[ 490 Title Flora Vitiensis Nova Publication Author Smith. A.C. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden; Hawaii Year 1979 ISBN Description A comprehensive flora of Fiji, often showing plant uses. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The thin-walled culms can be 35 - 60mm in diameter[ 490 Title Flora Vitiensis Nova Publication Author Smith. A.C. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden; Hawaii Year 1979 ISBN Description A comprehensive flora of Fiji, often showing plant uses. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The plant stems have been very important sources of materials in the Pacific, used in a wide range of applications and commonly harvested from the wild for local use. The plant also has a range of traditional medicinal uses. It is, however, widely being replaced in importance in the area by the larger, recently introduced Bambusa vulgaris[ 339 Title Agroforestry in the Pacific Islands: Systems for Sustainability Publication Author W.C. Clarke and R.R. Thaman (Editors) Website http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80824e/80824E00.htm#Contents Publisher United Nations University Press, Tokyo Year 1993 ISBN 92-808-0824-9 Description The guide includes information on 100 species of plants for Agroforestry. It is also available on the web at the address given above. ]. Schizostachyum glaucifolium is an exceptionally beautiful plant that features greenish-yellow culms with darker green stripe, it is often grown as an ornamental in the tropics[ 350 Title National Tropical Botanical Garden Publication Author Website http://ntbg.org/plants/choose_a_plant.php Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description General information on almost 400 species, with descriptions, habitats and some uses. ].