Botanical Name: Common Names:
Pleioblastus pygmaeus Pygmy Bamboo,
Native: Foliage Type:
No Evergreen
Plant Type: Plant Habit:
Hedging / Screening, Palms, Ferns & Tropical Dense, Spreading, Upright
Description:
Very similar to Pleioblastus distichus, but its leaves do not have the fern-like leaf grouping. Very tough, small bamboo widely used in Japan in bonsai and can be maintained as a lawn or clipped into a very low hedge. This is a running bamboo.
Mature Height: Mature Width:
30-60cm 2-4m
Position: Soil Type:
Full Sun, Semi Shade Well Drained