Bamboo plants growing in Southern California

                (We do not recommend varieties marked *  for landscaping in Southern California, even though they may be surviving in a collection or nursery or botanical garden.  Why?  They are either ugly or hard to maintain in this climate.)

            Arundinaria amabilis*
            Bambusa bambos*
            Bambusa beecheyana
            Bambusa dolichoclada
            Bambusa dolichomerithalla
            Bambusa lako
            Bambusa longifolia*
            Bambusa malingensis*
            Bambusa membranacea*
            Bambusa multiplex alphonse karr
            Bambusa multiplex fernleaf
            Bambusa multiplex golden goddess
            Bambusa multiplex silver stripe
            Bambusa nana*
            Bambusa nutans*
            Bambusa oldhamii (Tropical timber bamboo)
            Bambusa textilis
            Bambusa tuldoides (Puntingpole bamboo)*
            Bambusa vulgaris vittata
            Bambusa ventricosa (Buddha's Belly)*
            Chimonobambusa marmorea
            Chimonobambusa quadrangularis
            Chusquea circinata*
            Chusquea coronalis
            Dendrocalamus asper
            Dendrocalamus asper hitam
            Dendrocalamus giganteus
            Dendrocalamus jianshuensis
            Dendrocalamus latiflorus mei-nung
            Drepanostachyum khasianum*
            Fargesia foliosa*
            Fargesia fungosa*
            Fargesia nitida*
            Gigantochloa apus*
            Gigantochloa atrolviolacea
            Gigantochloa maxima*
            Gigantochloa verticillata*
            Guadua angustifolia*
            Guadua velutina*
            Himalayacalamus intermedius*
            Otatea aztecorum (Mexican weeping bamboo)
            Phyllostachys aurea (Golden bamboo)
            Phyllostachys bambusoides (Japanese timber bamboo)
            Phyllostachys bambusoides holochrysa
            Phyllostachys dulcis
            Phyllostachys heterocycla pubescens (Moso)*
            Phyllostachys nigra (Black bamboo)
            Phyllostachys nigra bory
            Phyllostachys nuda
            Phyllostachys nigra henon (Japanese timber bamboo)

    Phyllostachys viridis Robert Young

            Phyllostachys vivax (Japanese timber bamboo)
            Pleioblastus chino
            Pleioblastus pygmaeus (Pygmy bamboo)
            Pleioblastus variegatus
            Pseudosasa japonica (Arrow bamboo)
            Sasaella masamuneana
            Sasa Palmata*
            Semiarundinaria fastuosa (Temple bamboo)
            Thyrostachys oliverii*
            Thyrostachys siamensis*