Ornamental, hut making, hedge plant, fodder, young stem edible, ayurvedic  

ഇളം തണ്ടുകൾ ഭക്ഷ്യയോഗ്യമാണ്. അലങ്കാരച്ചെടിയായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു. കുടിൽ നിർമ്മാണത്തിനനുയോജ്യം.

Bambusa vulgaris have moderately loose culms with no thorns. Culms are lemon yellow with green stripes and dark green leaves.  Culm walls are slightly thick. Nodes are slightly inflated. Culm leaves are deciduous with dense pubescence. Leaf blades are narrowly lanceolate. Flowering at the interval of several decades, when the whole population of an area blooms at once. Fruit set is extremely rare.