Catalog Description
This evergreen bamboo has slender young green culms with a pronounced yellow groove found on opposite sides of the cane. Leaves are soft green color. A running bamboo with strong vertical growth. Full to partial sun. Fast-growing to 15 to 25 feet high. Division. Running. |
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Average Landscape Size
Fast-growing to 15 to 25 ft. high. |
Key Plant Benefits
This evergreen Bamboo has slender young green stems with a pronounced yellow groove found on opposite sides of the cane. Leaves are soft green color. A running Bamboo with strong vertical growth. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Can become invasive, best contained in an unperforated pot with lip above soil level. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Fast Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Clumping |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 12 (>210 days) |
| Low: | 3 (>7 to 14 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 11 (Above 40 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 5 (-20 to -10 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Once established needs only occasional water. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full to partial sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
None
| Flower Color |
| No Value |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Produces no flowers. |
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Propagation
| Propagation Method |
1
| Division |
| Best time to Prune |
| No Value |
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Attributes
Border Plant
Extremely Hardy
Oriental Garden
Patio Container Plant
Tropical
Windbreak
Woodland Garden
Deer Resistant |
Foliage
Narrow
| Foliage Shape | Lance-shaped |
| Normal foliage color | Green |
| Underside foliage | Green |
| Juvenile foliage | Green |
| Mature foliage | Green |
| New foliage | Green |
| Spring foliage | Green |
| Summer foliage | Green |
| Fall foliage | Green |
| Winter foliage | Green |
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Plant Lore
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Plant History
This species is native to China and introduced sometime in the middle 19th century. It is valued as a more cold hardy alternative to P. aurea. It is hardy in Washington D.C., a stand well established at the Capitol Building, but it is no less invasive than its cousin. It and all its relatives are true grasses and therefore fall into the Graminaeae family with their smaller cousins. It is native to much of Asia and is a chief source of paper pulp and construction material, and the shoots as a food crop too.. This genus was collected by the great plant hunter, Dr. Philipp von Siebold, 1791-1866, physician of the Dutch East India Company. He worked with Joseph Zuccarini, a botanical professor in Munich to classify the genus of about 80 species. |
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