Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
Ashwini M Wadhu, AD Rane, SS Desai, VD Tripathi, PR Kolhe, VR Narvankar and SS Ghole

Abstract:
Dendrocalamus stocksii is a one of the important crop belonging to the family Poaceae and sub family Bambusoideae. It is naturally distributed in the Central Western Ghats of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala. It is widely used as a building material for scaffolding, housing, furniture, fences, stakes, handicrafts, decorative arts and other farming equipment, while the young shoots are edible. College of Forestry has 63 accessions of Dendrocalamus stocksii collected from all over Western Ghats and planted at Biodiversity Park as a germplasm in 2014. Each accession collected from different location and possesses different genetic variations. The basal diameter of 10 selected superior old culms ranged from 48 – 55 mm. The average number of strips estimated per culm ranges from 141.3 – 172 strips. The different parameters of D. stocksii were observed for scaffolding purpose such as the average diameter (40.32 to 50.7 mm), height of culm (6.5 to 12 m), commercial height (3.43 to 7.8 m), number of nodes (28 to 36), tapering (pass), straightness of culms (pass), culm wall thickness (16 to 22.5 mm), fresh weight (6.04 to 8.35 kg) and dry weight (5.04 to 6.73 kg), and strength of culm (14.85 to 18.44 Gpa).