Bamboo Species

Indigenous
Origin: Philippines
Uses: Making sawali, musical instruments & fishing rods

Indigenous
Origin: Philippines
Uses: House construction, making furniture, arched yoke, made into ropes & source of edible shoots

Indigenous
Origin: Endemic bamboo reported from Palawan
Uses: Well known to all Filipino woodsmen as a source of drinking water, secured from the internodes. Making baskets and chairs.

Exotic
Origin: Indonesia
Uses: Making bamboo musical instruments, handicraft and furniture industries. Because of peculiar blackish culms, it is highly priced for landscaping.

Exotic
Origin: Taiwan
Uses: Ornamental grove, privacy screen where light greenery is required.

Indigenous
Origin: Philippines
Uses: house construction, making furniture, rafts, fish traps, fish pens, handicraft industry, temporary water pipes, fences.

Exotic
Origin: China
Uses: Ornamental, outdoor pot accent, handicraft, medicinal & edible.

Indigineous
Origin: Philippines
Uses: making of bamboo matting known as “sawali”. Also baskets, flutes & handicrafts

Exotic
Origin: Malaysia (Peninsula)
Uses: Culms for construction, furniture, agricultural tools & basketry.

Exotic
Origin: Himalayan Mountains in Tibet
Uses: Ornamental grass and for landscape. Colors are best when grown in indirect sunlight

Exotic
Origin: India
Uses: Raw material for pulp and paper, construction material, furniture, baskets, mats, sticks for agricultural implements, rafts & wooden wares

Exotic
Origin: China
Uses: Ornamental

Exotic
Origin: Asia
Uses: landscaping gardens and good as ground cover

Exotic
Origin: Japan
Uses: nice in waterside gardens and for larger patio containers

Exotic
Origin: Japan
Uses: ornamental and ground cover to prevent soil erosion

Exotic
Origin: Japan
Uses: Ornamental bamboo screen or hedge

Exotic
Origin: South-East Asia
Uses: House & bridge construction; medicinal

Exotic
Origin: South-East Asia
Uses: water container, handicrafts, banana crops & container for cooking rice

Exotic
Origin: China
Uses: makes excellent hedges, ornamental in gardens, fishing poles, handicrafts

Exotic
Origin: Columbia
Uses: preferred structural material for buildings. Solid iron bamboo can be cut into rectangular or square shapes to form lumber with or without lamination.

Exotic
Origin: Japan
Uses: Ornamental

Exotic
Origin: Tropical Asia
Uses: Fencing and props, masts, rudders & outriggers for boats.

Exotic
Origin: Indonesia
Uses: Young shoots as vegetable, culms for construction, basketry, furniture, parquets, chopsticks & fences

Exotic
Origin: Indonesia
Uses: Building material, furniture, handicrafts, musical instruments, chopsticks,toothpicks.

Indigenous
Origin: Philippines
Uses: Props for banana, sterilized riverbanks & prevent soil erosion

Exotic
Origin: New Guinea
Uses: Basketry and handicrafts

Exotic
Origin: China
Uses: Best shoot producing specie, ornamental bamboo, making baskets & hats

Exotic
Origin: Malaysia
Uses: Best hedging bamboo due to thick and uniform bushy foliage.

Exotic
Origin: Mexico (Southern part of North America)
Uses: Ideal screen or hedge, windbreak, ornamental plant with exotic lacy look

Exotic
Origin: China
Uses: Water pipes, household utensils, handicrafts & paper making; has edible shoots providing food for Asia for thousand years; new technology now uses Moso bamboo fiber for plywood, flooring and clothing.

Exotic
Origin: Bangladesh, Myanmar & Northeastern India
Uses: Widely used in building houses in Bangladesh. Even used for woven wares
(baskets, mats, handicrafts, etc.) and an important source of superior paper pulp.
The shoots are edible and constitute one of the important foods of the tribal
people of Chittagong.

Exotic
Origin: China & Taiwan
Uses: Furniture & paper making, ornamental, edible shoots for food

Indigenous
Origin: Philippines
Uses: Fencing and planted to control soil erosion; ornamental

Exotic
Origin: Japan
Uses: Ornamental indoor & outdoor plant in pots; walking sticks, umbrella and fan handles, fishing rods

Exotic
Origin: Japan
Uses: Shrub bamboo for landscaping that forms thick hedge

Exotic
Origin: China
Uses: Most interesting ornamental bamboo. Excellent material for handicrafts. New shoots are edible. Can be grown as a hedge or screen,

Exotic
Origin: China, Taiwan
Uses: Landscaping and ornamental plant. Used also in handicraft.

Exotic
Origin: Japan
Uses: Ornamental, great screen or hedge. Very effective windbreak, salt-air tolerant

Exotic
Origin: Thailand
Uses: Young shoots as vegetable, ornamental, windbreak, baskets, handicrafts, Chopsticks

Exotic
Origin: Indonesia
Uses: Planted for furniture industry in Bali. Cultivated in the Philippines as ornamental

Exotic
Origin: China
Uses: Wooden cane, famous flyrod bamboo, fine fishing rod, makes good screen

Exotic
Origin: China
Uses: Ornamental and excellent as hedge, windbreak if well-tended

Exotic
Origin: It’s not known but its native area extends from Myanmar, Indo-China and India.
Uses: Culms are used for building purposes. furniture, farm elements, baskets and other woven wares & handicrafts. Young shoots are edible.

Exotic
Origin: China
Uses: Planted as Landscape ornamentals and interior décor; medicinal

Exotic
Origin: Thailand, Myanmar and Laos
Uses: For building purposes, bamboo board, furniture, basketry, matting and handicrafts