Food Plants International - Plant Fact Sheets Himalayacalamus hookerianus - Himalayan Blue Bamboo
Edible Portion: Seeds, Cereal, Shoots
A bamboo. It grows 6 m tall. It grows in clumps and keeps growing from year to year. The stems are 5-9 m long and 2-4 cm wide. The internodes are 15-20 cm long. The culm sheaths are 30-40 cm long. The leaf blades are narrowly sword shaped and 15-30 cm long by 1-4 cm wide.