Oxytenanthera Abyssinica (=Savannah bamboo) is a stout, vigorous, evergreen bamboo that forms dense clumps of 20 – 100 canes. The thick-walled canes grow 3 – 15 metres tall; scarcely hollow, they are 8 – 10cm in diameter.
A plant of the drier to moist tropics, but avoiding the humid zones, it is found at elevations up to 2,000 metres, but mainly at 300 – 1,500 metres.
 It occurs in savannah woodland areas subject to a climate with an average annual rainfall of over 800 mm and 3 – 7 dry months (where the average rainfall is less than 50 mm). It is absent from closed forest and extends little into semi-arid wooded grassland and thicket. Prevailing average annual temperatures are 20 – 27°c, with monthly average daily maxima of 30 – 36°c and daily minima of 7 – 17°c.  Succeeds on a range of soils so long as they are moisture retentive and also well-drained.

      
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