African mountain bamboos look like Asian bamboos, with Mountain Gorillas instead of Giant Pandas, but research has shown that they are as different to Asian bamboos as the Gorilla is to the Panda, and they represent two completely new genera. Bamboos evolved in Gondwanaland, and how they reached China is unknown. Like modern humans they could have came 'Out of Africa', but it now seems more likely they were a gift to China from India.