Bambusa polymorpha, commonly known as Burmese Bamboo, is a large dense clumping tropical bamboo native to Bangladesh, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand. It is a bamboo of many uses with sweet tasting edible shoots.
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Bambusa lako also known as Timor Black Bamboo, is a species of tropical dense clumping bamboo native to Indonesia. This bamboo is easily recognised by its striking shiny black culms.
Bambusa burmanica also known as Burmese Weavers Bamboo is a medium-sized tropical and subtropical clumping bamboo originating from Burma and Thailand. This bamboo is used in construction and basket making.
Bambusa blumeana, also known as Spiny Bamboo or Thorny Bamboo, is a tropical clumping bamboo native to Indonesia and Malaysia. Shoots from this bamboo species are edible and consumed as a vegetable.
Bambusa bambos also known as Giant Thorny Bamboo or Indian Thorny Bamboo, is a species of tropical dense clumping bamboo native to Southeast Asia. This bamboo species was previously named Bambusa arundinacea and is often used for construction purposes.
Bambusa balcooa also known as Female Bamboo is a tropical clumping bamboo originating from Northeast India. This bamboo species is often used as a food source, in scaffolding, for paper pulp or wood chips.
In Argentina, bamboo does not play a dominant role in forestry. As in the majority of South American countries, bamboo exploitation is generally confined to the local use of native species in areas close to the source of supply.
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This small flat country is the only one in Central America without any Chusquea species. Belize, however, is well known for the Guadua longifolia populations along the Belize river and its tributaries on the Yucatan Peninsula.
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In Bolivia, bamboo has been used by Andean communities in traditional production of musical instruments and baskets, and as cattle forage. An estimate of the area of bamboo forest in the highlands or lowland regions of this country does not yet exist.
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Brazil is the country with the greatest bamboo diversity and the highest percentage of endemic woody bamboos in Latin America — 137 species (32% of Latin American bamboo species) and 17 genera (85% of Latin American bamboo genera).
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The native bamboo species in the Caribbean and West Indies are confined to small-sized bamboos less than 1 cm in diameter. Because of this, they do not have any economic value.
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In Chile, bamboo is rarely used as an economic plant, but has some influence on the dynamics and composition of the Chilean Andes forest.
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