BAMBUSA MULTIPLEX FERNLEAF

 

 

6' height, Sun, 15 degrees F Minimum, Clumper.

Bambusa nana, Bambusa disticha, Bambusa nan disticha, Leleba floribunda, Fernleaf Bamboo, Hoo chiku.

        Originally from China.

       

        When grown rather dry in a pot the leaves of this one are only about 1/4" x 1-1/2" & grow closely together in fern-like rows on a 12" high plant.  If grown in the ground in rich moist soil, the plants grow larger with more widely spaced leaves.  Occasional reversions to the full size form must be pruned out or they will take over.

        Installed inside the new LA Convention Center with about 150 foot-candles of light in the fall of 1993, but as far as I know they did not survive.