To provide composite panels that are fabricated from Arundo donax (one kind of grass), and to provide pulp produced from the Arundo donax.

In the fabrication of the composite panels, Arundo donax is comminuted 20 to a suitable size, combined with a binder 40, 50, and consolidated 80 via a mat forming step 60 and a prepress step 70 into panels that meet standards for construction and/or furniture grade panels. The comminuted Arundo donax is treated, in conventional pulping processes, to produce a high tensile strength pulp that has a lighter color than wood pulp.