Beema Bamboo

Beema Bamboo (also spelled Bheema) is a superior clone selected from Bambusa balcooa and multiplied through tissue culture by Growmore Biotech Ltd, Tamil Nadu, over more than fifteen years of field selection. Because every plant is a clone of one selected mother plant, a Beema plantation is genetically uniform and, the company states, sterile — it does not go through the gregarious flowering that kills a normal bamboo clump, so a planting can stay productive for decades without that risk. It is promoted mainly for high-density energy and biomass plantations (around 1,000 plants/acre) under assured irrigation, and for carbon and greening projects.

Plant typeTissue-culture clone of Bambusa balcooa
MaturityFirst cut year 4; heavy yield year 7–9
Yield potentialVery high in the high-density, well-irrigated model it is sold for
Disease resistancePlantlets leave the lab disease-free; field hygiene still matters
SoilLoam
SeasonAll seasons

• SpacingAbout 2 × 2 m (roughly 1,000 plants/acre, 2,500/ha) in the high-density model it is sold for

Actual yield depends on sowing time, soil, irrigation, weather, seed quality and crop management.

• Tamil Nadu
• Andhra Pradesh
• Karnataka
• Maharashtra
• Gujarat

• Bambusa balcooa (Bhaluka)

  The workhorse of commercial bamboo planting across India — a large, thick-walled, near-thornless clumping bamboo with strong, mostly straight culms to 20–25 m, used for construction, scaffolding, agarbatti sticks, board and pulp. Needs good soil and assured water for its best yield.

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• Bambusa bambos (Kanta bans)

  India's common giant thorny bamboo (also called Bambusa arundinacea), forming very large dense clumps with strong culms up to 30 m. The branch thorns make clump management and harvesting harder, but the culms are strong and widely used, and the young shoots are eaten.

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• Dendrocalamus strictus (male bamboo)

  The most widespread bamboo in India and the mainstay of the dry deciduous forests of Madhya Pradesh and central India. Culms are smaller (8–16 m) and often nearly solid, making strong lathis, tool handles, agarbatti sticks and pulp. Genuinely drought-hardy — grown rainfed on 750–1000 mm of rain.

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• Dendrocalamus asper (sweet bamboo)

  An exotic, very large bamboo grown mainly for its thick, mild-tasting young shoots — the premium edible bamboo shoot in trade — while the heavy culms are also good construction timber. Needs deep, well-drained soil and warmth.

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• Dendrocalamus hamiltonii (Kako bans)

  A large hill bamboo of the North-East and sub-Himalayan belt with long internodes, used for construction, baskets, mats and paper. Its tender shoots are widely eaten fresh and fermented in the region. Takes cold better than most bamboos.

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• Bambusa tulda (Jati bans)

  The classic North-East industrial bamboo — straight, strong, medium culms that are the preferred raw material for agarbatti sticks, plywood, mats and the region's paper mills. Forms a fairly open, easy-to-manage clump.

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