Poaceae
Giant bamboo
Dendrocalamus asper
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Dendrocalamus
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Common names
By language (8)
- ban
- Tiying petung, Tiing petung
- Chinese
- 马来甜龙竹, 菲律宾巨单竹, 高舌竹, 菲律宾巨草竹, 菲律賓巨草竹
- English
- Giant bamboo, Indonesian asper, Rough asper, Rough bamboo
- Indonesian
- Betung, Buluh petung, Petung
- Japanese
- リョウリダケ
- Malay
- Buluh betong
- Portuguese
- Bambu-áspero
- Sundanese
- Awi bitung
Synonyms
- Arundarbor aspera Rumph.
- Arundarbor bitung (Schult.f.) Kuntze
- Arundo aspera (Schult. & Schult.f.) Oken
- Arundo piscatoria Lour.
- Bambusa aspera Schult. & Schult.f.
- Bambusa bitung Schult.f.
- Bambusa flagellifera Griff. ex Munro
- Calamagrostis piscatoria (Lour.) Steud.
- Dendrocalamus asper f. niger Hildebr.
- Dendrocalamus flagellifer Munro
- Gigantochloa aspera (Schult. & Schult.f.) Kurz
- Schizostachyum bitung (Schult.f.) Steud.
- Schizostachyum loriforme Munro
- Sinocalamus flagellifer T.Q.Nguyen
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
Photos
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Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.