Golden Bamboo
Bambusa vulgaris
''Bambusa vulgaris'', also known as Golden Bamboo, or Buddha’s Belly Bamboo, is an open-clump type bamboo species. It is native to Indochina and to the Province of Yunnan in southern China, but it has been widelty cultivated in many other places and has become naturalized in several. Among bamboo species, it is one of the largest and most easily recognized.
Golden bamboo is known as "කහ උණ - kaha una", meaning "yellow bamboo" in Sri Lanka. In Theravada Buddhism, this bamboo is said to have used as the tree for achieved enlightenment, or Bodhi by fifteenth Lord Buddha called "Sujaatha - සුජාත". In Sanskrit, it was cited as "හුණ - Huna" and "වේලු - Velu".
Golden bamboo is known as "කහ උණ - kaha una", meaning "yellow bamboo" in Sri Lanka. In Theravada Buddhism, this bamboo is said to have used as the tree for achieved enlightenment, or Bodhi by fifteenth Lord Buddha called "Sujaatha - සුජාත". In Sanskrit, it was cited as "හුණ - Huna" and "වේලු - Velu".
