Bambusa
Bamboo
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Bambusa is a large genus of evergreen clumping bamboos, often growing as tall, erect culms with numerous branches. They are commonly used for privacy screens or windbreaks due to their non-invasive root behavior. Many species thrive in moist, humus-rich soils and require consistent moisture, adapting to a range of sun exposures.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 230.02%—5.0 in
No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.
Traits
- Form
- Columnar
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Mature height
- 65.6–98.4 ft
- Canopy spread
- 10 ft
- USDA zones
- 8
- Sun
- Full sun, Part shade
- Soil
- Moist, Humus-rich
- Water needs
- Moderate
- Roots
- Non-invasive
Trunk diameters across every city: median 5.0 in, mean 8.5 in, 90th percentile 18 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
- Admiralty Islands lowland rain forests
- New Britain-New Ireland lowland rain forests
- New Britain-New Ireland montane rain forests
- New Caledonia rain forests
- Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests
- Northern New Guinea montane rain forests
- Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests
- Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests
- Andaman Islands rain forests
- Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
- Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests
- Mentawai Islands rain forests
- Myanmar coastal rain forests
- Nicobar Islands rain forests
- Northern Annamites rain forests
- Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests
- Northern Thailand-Laos moist deciduous forests
- Northern Triangle subtropical forests
- Northern Vietnam lowland rain forests
- Orissa semi-evergreen forests
- South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests
- South Taiwan monsoon rain forests
- Sri Lanka lowland rain forests
- Sri Lanka montane rain forests
- Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests
- Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
- Southeast Indochina dry evergreen forests
- Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests
- Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
Tropical & Subtropical Coniferous Forests
- Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests