What is the scientific name of this bamboo?

I'm making an herbarium sheet for my taxonomy class and I used one of the most common plants I see around me - that is, Japanese bamboo. I searched it on the Net, but I found that the common name Japanese bamboo is shared by another species in a different family.





So what is the scientific name of my Japanese bamboo? And is there another common name for it?





If it helps, it does come from the Grass (Poaceae) family.





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What is the scientific name of this bamboo?
Contrary to what has been said above, it IS a bamboo - seeing as there are many types of bamboos in the family Poaceae. I think that may be a Filipino bamboo - Dracaena surcolosa.





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then it definitely is.





Though... from what I've read, it may also be from the family Dracaenaceae, but you know how family naming goes - it could be either or, depending on the author.
Reply:The way I see it this is not a bamboo. Your plant belong to a different family other than Family Poaceae once formerly graminae. Nevertheless the scientific name of bamboo is Bambusa vulgaris.


As a friendly suggestion try finding the scientific name of your plant outside the grass family.


Hope this will help...
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