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Bamboo is the plant of family Gramineae (grass family), chiefly of warm or tropical and subtropical regions, where it is sometimes an extremely important component of the vegetation. It is most abundant in the monsoon area of East Asia. Bamboo can reach 30 m high and 30 cm diameter. The culms are round (rarely square), jointed, sometimes thorny, and hollow or solid with evergreen or deciduous leaves. Some types die after flowering and some do not flower in several decades. In many places bamboo is used as wood for construction work, furniture, utensils, fabric, paper, fuel, and innumerable small articles. Bamboo shoots are delicious vegetable, and some grains of some species are also utilized for food. The bamboo has long been used for decorative purposes, both in gardens and in art. There are more than thousand uses of bamboo.

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Bamboo seed: Fresh bamboo seeds of moso (Phyllostachys pubescens) (-20° C) and Dendrocalamus giganteus, Dendrocalamus barbatus, Dendrocalamus hamiltonii,Bambusa distegia, Dendrocalamus membranaceus and Dendrocalamus peculiaris are available now, more details please contact Zhuzi

Other bamboo seeds will be availble soon

a clump of Dendrocalamus yunnanicus with 33 culms of 7-14 cm diameter

2006 UNIDO/INBAR Bamboo Furniture Training
March, 2006, Ambon, Indonesia Project Report (PDF, 2.2MB)

The International Bamboo Inventory Training Workshop
24 October - 04 November 2005, Beijing and Zhejiang, China

2005 INBAR Bamboo Study Tour in Zhejiang Province, China

There are over 150 photos for bamboo, please press Bamboo-photo 

24 June CCTV 7 (China Central Television) replayed a bamboo charcoal program, in this program Dr. Fu Jinhe was interviewed to answer questions in my office in INBAR. 

Co-organized by the State Forestry Administration of China, the Hubei Provincial Government and INBAR, the 4th China National Bamboo Culture Festeval will be held on 9-11 October, 2003 in Xian Ning, Hubei of China.INBAR will organize an international  seminar on bamboo. Details will be announced in due course.

International Conference on Bamboo Resource Utilization and Processing TechnologyYiyang, China 2003, Sponsored by Asia Pacific Center for Technology Transfer (APCTT)The Ministry Science And Technology of P.R.C. (MOST), Hosted by the Department of Science and Technology of Hunan Province, Yiyang Municipal People’s Government. Contact person: Mr. Huang Hui (hhuang@cs.hn.cn)

INBAR's CD "Global climatic cross-mapping for bamboo species-to-site matching" displays the potential exotic locations for each species according to the climatic requirements of each bamboo, and also shows all species suitable for a specific location. The CD also includes information on distribution, climatic requirements and uses for each species. One example is at http://www.inbar.int/sitematch.htm.

Once a user finds out what species are suitable for his site, he may ask where he can find the species from a bamboo nursery near his site. So we would like to collect bamboo lists from bamboo suppliers around the world. Later we will combine the lists to our CD. Please send me your bamboo lists, location, contact information etc before May.

Thanks for your cooperation. Fu, Jinhe

Bamboo dissertation was published this February, you could buy it from Cuvillier Verlag, Goettingen, Germany before, but it's out of print. Please contact Jinhe Fu, he has a few copies.　Here is the Abstract　

Some of Mr. Huang's bamboo paintings are in http://www.oocities.org/zhuzi.geo/Photo/

"Voice of bamboo" and "Bamboo in the wind" are Bamboo music CDs played using bamboo instruments. The famous bamboo music instrument Maker Mr. Wang Wei got ABS 2002 Art & Crafts Honorable Mention Award, here you can hear his CD "Voice of Bamboo". If you need the CD, please send an email to jfu@inbar.int

The first issue of "World Bamboo and Rattan" will be published in March 2003. This journal will be issued quarterly with 48 page numbers most in Chinese and English abstracts, maybe also 2-3 papers/articles in English. The publisher is Chinese Academy of Forestry.

Download bamboo publications, please click http://www.bamboonetwork.org/archives.htm

(1. Bamboo Charcoal and Bamboo Vinegar 2. Bamboo Juice, Beer and Medicine.  

3. Chinese Moso Bamboo: Its Importance.  4. Bamboo species to site matching)

5. Moso bamboo in China1.pdf

INBAR News Magazine is online and free.

We have interest in bamboo biomass for bioenergy/biofuel etc, if you have also interest, please contact jfu@inbar.int, we have also interest in bamboo charcoal and bamboo vinegar study. Our EOI to EU is at http://www.cordis.lu/en/home.html

Last September Jinhe Fu has been invited to ABS Annual Meeting to make a speaking. Here is an article from the local newspaper for his trip Article Newspaper.pdf

Recently Jinhe Fu has videotaped a footage of moso bamboo plantation, one part of it from a moso bamboo seedling  grove

　Jinhe Fu is searching Bamboo research partners of university, institute and company in Europe, if you have interest, please contact him 

　　EBS-Deutschland is online

Bamboo photos by internet(more than 1000 photos)     

      The Chinese Gallery and bamboo paintings   

Beautiful BAMBOO Chinese ink brush on Paper

Bamboo filter bag made in Melitta    

Bamboo distribution in the world
 from Bambus, Christine Recht

Bamboo distribution in China 
from Chinese Flora 

Hardiness Zones in China

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Translation with SYSTRAN

Chat at MSN messager with mosoboo

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