The African Alpine Bamboo

Abstract

The alphine bamboo (Arundinaria alpine K. Schum.) is a medium-sized, strong but thin-walled bamboo which grows gregariously in mountain forests in tropical Africa. It is founs in the highlands of Abyssinia, the southern Sudan, the Congo, Kenya and Tanganyika. Even as far south of Nyasaland a species of alpone bamboo believed to be Arudinaria alpine be been found.