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Gigantochloa Atter botanical plate
Plate · drawn for the register, 2026Gigantochloa atter
Tree

Gigantochloa Atter

Gigantochloa atter (Hassk.) Kurz ex Munro
Indochina to New Guinea

A clumping bamboo of the wet tropics native to Indo-China and the Malay Archipelago, known in Indonesian as bambu ater and in English as legi bamboo. It was first published under this name in 1868.

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1on the estate
0carrying a tag
0sponsored
FamilyPoaceae
Also known asLegi bamboo, Bambu ater, Gigantochloa Atter (common name missing)
Native toIndo-China (Laos, Vietnam) through Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Philippines and the Lesser Sunda Islands to Maluku and New Guinea
TagGarden areaZonePlantedStatusSponsoredNote
———5 July 2019Planted—4.0

1 of these has no tag yet; it will be numbered when the garden team re-tags the estate.

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