9. CHIMONOBAMBUSA
Spreading, slightly frost-hardy bamboos with well-separated, solitary culms up to 4m tall and up to 2cm in diameter, found in cool broadleaved forest from 1,400m to 2,000m. The culm nodes are raised, with three branches, and often have a ring of prominent thorns. The culms are upright, arising singly from long rhizomes that have roots at all nodes. In growth habit similar to the spreading bamboos of China and Japan in the genus Phyllostachys, and they also have distinct
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