Bamboo, the poor man's timber, is one of the most useful and fascinating perennial woody grasses belonging to the tribe Bambuseae of plant family Poaceae. Bamboo constitutes one of the dominant secondary successional vegetation types in the Eastern Himalayan region. Abandoned shifting cultivation areas and forest clearings form favourable habitats for bamboos to invade, colonize and establish faster when compared to broadleaved native species resulting in pure and/or mixed bamboo forests. Due to its abundance and faster regrowth, these bamboo species meet a variety of socioeconomic and ethno...