The world's largest bamboo species

The world's largest bamboo, the giant dragon bamboo, is native to Canyuan County, the bamboo township of Xishuangbanna, where the Dai people call it "buried wave", which means "the largest bamboo" in Dai, while other villagers call it "The difference between this and other bamboos can be seen from these places. Most of these bamboos grow at the edge of the village, with a height of 30-45 meters, making them like guardians guarding the village.

The diameter of Giant Dragon Bamboo is generally between 20-30 cm, and the height is mostly between 20-30 meters, even the leaves can grow up to 40 cm long, a top Giant Dragon Bamboo, the longest can reach 45 meters high, the thickest can reach 30 cm, the weight is also in about 360 kg, almost equivalent to the weight of a buffalo. Although the height of 45 meters is not as high as the tallest tree in the world, it is also considered the king of bamboos.

Although giant dragon bamboos are 45 meters tall, they generally begin to fork at 11 meters, but their overall average number of nodes is extremely high, up to 98.43, almost 100, and the distance between each node is about 25 cm, which means that if a giant dragon bamboo grows to a height of 45 meters, it has at least 180 nodes.

What does a giant dragon bamboo look like?

There are two types of dragon bamboos: the straight-sided ones and the crooked-legged ones. The crooked-legged ones are the ones we often call giant dragon bamboos, which have swollen nodes on one side at the base, causing the upper nodes to be mostly tilted and crossed, which is why they are called crooked-legged ones.