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Square Bamboo
Chimonobambusa quadrangularis
Chimonobambusa quadrangularis, commonly called square bamboo or shidakudake is a bamboo in the grass family (Graminae, or Poaceae) and native to China and Taiwan, and naturalized to Japan. It is one of the very few monocots to have square stems. These stems, or culms are up to thirty feet (nine metres) in height and two inches (five centimetres) in diameter.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 400767.