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Asia’s oldest bamboo
October 21 , 2019
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- Two fossils dating back 25 million years were found in Makum coalfield in Assam.
- With over 49,000 plant species reported as of 2018, India holds about 11.5% of all flora in the world.
- Now, a new fossil record has shown that India is the birthplace of Asian bamboo, and they were formed about 25 million years ago in the north-eastern part of the country.
- These belonged to the late Oligocene period of about 25 million years ago.
- Yunnan Province in China now has the highest diversity of bamboo, but the oldest fossil in that region is less than 20 million years old.
- It is clearly indicating that Asian bamboo was born in India and then migrated there.
- This finding further strengthens the theory that bamboo came to Asia from India and not from Europe.
- The European bamboo fossil is about 50 million years old.
- Bamboo fossils are not very common in India as they are known only from the Siwalik sediments at Himalayas.
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