A bamboo indigenous to Eastern India and Southeast Asia. It has long been important economically in the paper and construction industrie...Read Mores of these areas.
The species name is of obscure origin, referenced by British botanist and explorer Joseph Dalton Hooker in his 1854 travelogue "Himalayan Journals" : 'The bamboo, of which the quiver is made, is thin and light: it is brought from Assam, and called Tulda, or Dulwa, by the Bengalees.'
I have personally communicated with several native speakers of Bengal, and none of them knew too much about the word, though it is referenced on several other websites as a Bengali common name for Bambusa tulda
A bamboo indigenous to Eastern India and Southeast Asia. It has long been important economically in the paper and construction industrie...Read More