Bambusa lako
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 bambos
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
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.
Bamboo Species of Argentina
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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Bamboo Species of Belize
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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Bamboo Species of Bolivia
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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Bamboo Species of Brazil
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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Bamboo Species of the Caribbean
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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Bamboo Species of Chile
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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Bamboo Species of Colombia
Colombia has the second highest woody bamboo diversity in Latin America. At present, 9 genera and 70 species are reported, with 24 species being endemic and at least 12 species remaining to be described.
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Bamboo Species of Costa Rica
Costa Rica is the country with the largest woody bamboo diversity in Central America. At present, 8 genera and 39 species of woody bamboos are reported.
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Bamboo Species of Ecuador
Ecuador, for its size, possesses an impressive diversity of woody bamboos. Up to the present, 6 genera and 42 species have been identified (11 endemics ones), with about 15 species remaining to be described.
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