River cane is a north american native plant. For structure, it's much less durable and typlicaly small narrow width. Asian bamboo is very long lasting and has the spreading branches that make crappie structure so attractive to fish. I have acess to 2 kinds, one I call India cane and one called true bamboo. The real bamboo can reach 40' tall and be 5" at the base. It is great for deep water where you can get the bushy part to be 15 to 18' tall. India cane is bushy from 4' to about 12' tall and is best for shallow water.
I don't fish because I want to, I fish because I HAVE to !
Moma tried real hard.