Bamboo

BOTANICAL NAME: BAMBUSA VULGARIS

FAMILY: Poaceae

SYNONYMS:

ENGLISH: Rattan, cane, sisal

HINDI: Baans

TAMIL: Mūṅkil

CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS:

❖   The lignin content ranges between 20.90 and 30.13 per cent, whilst holocelluloses

range between 69.01 and 72.34 per cent. Alpha cellulose ranges from 58.97 to 61.54 per cent. The cold water solubility of bamboo samples from the sites ranges from 7.89 to as high as 16.70 per cent

USES:

1)     Houses, schools and other buildings. Today, over one billion people in the world live in bamboo houses

2)     Roads and bridges

3)     Medicines

4)     Bamboo Clothes

5)     Accessories

6)     Food

7)     Fuel

8)     Scaffolding

9)     Construction materials to food, medicine

10) Musical instruments