PLEIOBLASTUS LINEARIS

 

7' height, Shade/sun, 5 degrees F Minimum, Runner.

 

        Vigorous, upright plant with long, narrow leaves in grassy brush-like tufts.  Imported from Taiwan by the American Bamboo Society around 1982.

        A 15 gallon pot sold at the '86 ABS auction for $110. A 5 gallon pot with 2 6' culms was sold at the fall '91 NWABS sale for $55.  At the fall '92 SCABS sale a gallon pot sold for $20 & a 5 gallon pot sold for $40.

        Hermine - "I'm a fool for Bamboo with grassy leaves & Grasses with bambooey leaves.  After all, the words grass & graceful spring from the same verbal rhizome.  Anybody who doesn't understand this should ask his English teacher for a refund."

 

PLEIOBLASTUS LINEARIS NANA

3' height, Sun, 0 degrees F Minimum, Runner.  The ABS SoCal reference collection contained one plant as of 12/92.