Different plants have different colonization history based on its economics.How rattan (family-Palmacea or Aracacea) colonization connected with the historical era?
Calamus is a genus well represented in India, mostly throughout the moist deciduous and evergreen forests. About 25 species are found native to the country.
It was ( to a small extent now also) a plant widely used by tribal and local people mainly for furniture and household utensils. But I don't think that there is any history of colonization for rattan based on its economics. It somehow became a tribal community based job and only those people harvested the raw material from the wild.
Rattan was never tried under cultivation and whatever used was only harvested from the wild populations. Difficulty in handling the plant under cultivation (Woody climbing nature, large thorns and the thorny climbing whips, difficulty in harvesting) is the main reason.
In modern era of development , youngsters of those communities expertised in such works have diverted from such community based works.
Rattans are monocotyledons close to bamboo and other grasses has role as pioneer species in serial ecological succession. they are colonizers in early serial stage in humid / sub-humid climate.
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