General description
This species is a small sized graceful bamboo. Known as Giant Buddhas Belly, has large swollen internodes and weeping culms. Culms are loosely tufted, dark shiny green, woody and thick-walled, with an average height between 2-5 m. Internodes are 10-15 cm long of which the lower internodes are shortened and swollen with nodal roots. Lower swollen internodes can be 10-12 cm in diameter. Several to many clustered branches with 1-3 larger dominant branches. Branches usually occur over the entire culm.
