Clumper or Runner: Clumper — non-invasive, tight clumping

Height / diameter / Internode: 6 – 10 m / 2 – 4 cm / ± 25 – 45 cm

Color / Leaf length / Branch: Green culms / narrow green leaves ± 8 – 20 cm / many fine branches with soft foliage

Potted/Garden/Commercial: Potted, Garden, Screening or Landscape Commercial

Minimum Temperatures / Climate: ± −10°C to −12°C / Warm temperate to subtropical; also suitable for protected tropical and urban gardens

Water needed yearly / Altitude / soil / pH: Moderate water, especially during establishment / low to medium altitudes / fertile, moist, well-drained soil / pH ± 6.0 – 7.5

Uses: Excellent privacy screen, hedge, windbreak, ornamental garden bamboo, narrow-space planting, pots and troughs, light craft poles, garden stakes, weaving material and small decorative culms. Very popular because it grows upright, stays compact, has a neat clumping habit and does not spread like running bamboo.

Clumper or Runner:  Clumper

Height / diameter / Internode: up to 20 m / 15 – 20 cm / 25 – 35 cm

Color / Leaf length / Branch: Plain green, white or yellow stripes at the base / 20 – 40 cm / on upper nodes

Potted/Garden/Commercial:  Garden / Commercial

Minimum Temperatures / Climate:  −10°C — −3°C / Humid to very dry

Water needed yearly / Altitude / soil / pH :  600 – 5 000 mm Tolerant to salinity & water logging. It is drought resistant and frost hardy / 0 – 1 200 m / all kind of soils / pH 6.0 – 7.5

Uses:  For boat masts, poles, props, furniture, pulp, medicine, basketry, handicrafts & fencing.