GUADUA AMPLEXIFOLIA

Robert Saporito photo, Florida

 

Sun, 24 degrees F Minimum, Clumper.

        Large diameter plant with white bands at the nodes. Mature plant is growing in the ground at the USDA quarantine station in Florida.  Gary Stinson has a plant growing in the California low desert which took two nights at 24 degrees in the winter of 1993.

        All Guadua are technically clumpers, but when grown in groves in the ground the canes are so widely spaced that they look like runners.  A 10 gallon pot sold at the spring 1994 auction for $110.  A plant donated by the ABS Caribbean Chapter to the ABS 10/95 auction in Savannah was bought by George & Betty Shor for $60.  A 5 gallon pot sold at the April 2001 SCABS auction for $170.