Bambusa tuldoides Munro
| Family: | POACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Buddha's Belly Bamboo | ||||
| Synonym: | Bambusa ventricosa McClure | ||||
| Common Name: | Not available | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | Not specified | ||||
| Distribution: | Native of China and Thailand, introduced elsewhere | ||||
| Habitat: | Grown as ornamental plant | ||||
| Uses: | Hedge plant, Ayurvedic, ornamental, tender stem edible, bonsai material | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Culms tufted, to 5 m tall; internodes often obliquely swollen, nearly as wide as long; successive internodes forming a slightly zig-zag pattern; long slender horizontal branches frequent from lower nodes of such culms. Culm-sheaths somewhat flushed with purple when young, quite hairless on the back. Leaf-blades to 15 x 2 cm, lower ones with broad truncate base, stalks short, lower surface very shortly soft-hairy (velvety to the touch), colour as upper surface. | ||||