World bamboo day celebrated at Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, India on 18 September 2014
This year the
Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI) at Palode, Trivandrum, Kerala, India celebrated
the World bamboo day on 18 September in a simple way. Three staff members of
the Bamboo Biology group, Mr B. Gopakumar, Technical Officer, Mr N Salahudeen,
Garden Maistry and Mr A Asokachandran Nair, Gardener jointly planted a sapling
of Neololeba atra (Lindl.)
Widjaja, received from Singapore. This species, distributed in C. Malesia to N. & NE. Queensland, is a new addition to the Bambusetum of
JNTBGRI.
Following the planting ceremony, Dr K C Koshy,
leader of the group, inaugurated the distribution of seedlings of Bambusa tulda Roxb. generated through
seeds obtained from a flowering clump of the species grown in the Bambusetum.
K C Koshy
Bamboo
Biology Group, JNTBGRI
