River cane, whose botanical name is arundinaria gigantea, is a species of bamboo also known as giant cane.
This plant is native to the south-central and southeastern United States.
It grows in pine forests dominated by loblolly, slash, longleaf, and shortleaf pine, and stands of oaks, cypress, ash, and cottonwood.
This bamboo, which is a type of cane, is a perennial herb with hollow, round stems that can grow to more than 7 cm in diameter and up to 10 m in height.
These cane communities occur mainly in floodplains, swamps, riparian forests, barren pines and savannas, and pocosins.
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