Table 2.

Fairly reliable records of bamboo flowering habit.

Flowering habit	Bamboo species
Sporadic flowering	Bambusa burmanica, B. distegia, B. emeiensis, B. intermedia, B. multiplex, B. oldhamii, B. remotiflora, B. rigida, B. spinosa, B. ventricosa, B. vulgaris, B. xiashanensis, B. xueana, Chimonobambusa ningnanica, Chimonocalamus pallens, Dendrocalamus barbatus, D. barbatus var. internodiradicatus, D. birmanicus, D. brandisii, D. fugongensis, D. giganteus, D. latiflorus, D. manipureanus, D. minor, D. pachystachyus, D. peculiaris, D. sinicus, D. yunnanicus, Drepanostachyum falcatum var. glomerata, Fargesia dracocephala, F. edulis, F. frigidis, F. hygrophila, F. melanostachys, F. papyrifera, Indosasa patens, I. sinica, Neomicrocalamus prainii, Phyllostachys angusta, Ph. arcana, Ph. bissetii, Ph. nidularia, Ph. praecox “Viridisulcata,” Ph. violascens, Ph. violascens f. preveynalis, Pleioblastus gramineus, Pl. simonii f. heterophyllus, Pseudosasa amabilis var. convexa, Ps. amabilis var. tenuis, Pseudostachyum polymorphum, Schizostachyum funghomii, Semiarundinaria densiflora var. villosum, Yushania sp.
Massive synchronized flowering	Acidosasa purpurea, Ampelocalamus patellaris, A. scandens, A. stoloniformis, Bambusa arnhemica, B. bambos, Cephalostachyum chinense, Ce. latifolium, Ce. pingbianense, Chimonobambusa pachystachys, Ch. quadrangularis, Ch. rigidula, Ch. szechuanensis, Ch. tumidissinoda, Ch. utilis, Chimonocalamus dumosus, Chusquea abietifolia, Ch. quila, Ch. ramosissima, Dendrocalamus longispathus, Fargesia denudata, F. fungosa, F. murielae, F. nitida, F. obliqua, F. qinlingensis, F. robusta, F. scabrida, F. spathacea, Gaoligongshania megalothyrsa, Gigantochloa albociliata, G. nigrociliata, Guadua trinii, Indocalamus tessellatus, I. wilsoni, I. angustata, Melocalamus compactiflorus, M. scandens, Otatea ramirezii, Phyllostachy atrovaginata, Ph. edulis, Ph. fimbriligula, Ph. glabrata, Ph. glauca f. Yunzhu, Ph. glauca, Ph. heteroclada f. solide, Ph. meyeri, Ph. nigra var. henonis, Ph. propinqua, Ph. rutila, Ph. sulphurea var. viridis, Ph. vivax, Pleioblastus amarus, Pl. argenteostriatus, Pl. linearis, Pl. maculatus, Pl. pygmaeus, Pseudosasa japonica, Sarocalamus faberi, Sasa kurilensis, S. palmata, S. senanensis, S. veitchii var. hirsuta, Sasaella kogasensis ‘Aureostriatus’, Sasamorpha sinica, Schizostachyum dumetorum, Sch. pergracile, Shibataea chinensis, Sinobambusa tootsik, Yushania confusa
Combined massive synchronized and sporadic flowering	Acidosasa notata, Bashania fargesii, Bambusa tulda, Chimonobambusa pachystachys, Chusquea ramosissima, Ch. culeou, Ch. macrostachya, Ch. montana, Ch. uliginosa, Ch. valdiviensis, Dendrocalamus hamiltonii, D. hamiltonii var. hamiltonii, D. membranaceus, D. strictus, Indocalamus latifolius, Melocanna baccifera, Phyllostachys heteroclada, Ph. reticulata, Ph. reticulata f. shouzhu, Ph. reticulata f. tanakae, Ph. rubromarginata, Sasa cernua, Schizostachyum dullooa
Partial flowering	Acidosasa notata, Indocalamus sp., Phyllosasa tranquillans f. shiroshima, Ph. iridescens, Ph. reticulata f. lacrima-deae, Pleioblastus amarus var. pendulifolius, Pl. simonii

Due to the complexity of bamboo classification, the scientific names listed are all the scientific names in the original text, which may have changed.