This plant can grow in Southen California if you plant it in a location that is slightly warmer in the winter. Close to a heated buil...Read Moreding or Under some trees will give it enough protection to make it through the winter. It can not take temperatures lower than 30F, it has a close relative Guadua amplexifolia that is smaller and less thorny which can take a little more cold 28F the two plants are commonly mixed up because they look exactly the same.
The plant has a spectacular apperance but it does have some nasty thorns in the branches so be carefull.
It does show up occasionally at various plant sales at local botanical gardens, I have one growing in a protected area and it does fine.
Largest American bamboo- grows up to 100' in nature (tropics or Peru and Colombia) but less so in So Cal (maybe 1/2 that). Has thick cul...Read Morems up to 8" in diameter. Nice green prominently ringed culms. This is a clumper (makes more closely packed clumps than a runner does) but has relatively open clumps. Most culms exceptionally straight for a clumping bamboo. Used primarily for furniture and some construction.
This plant can grow in Southen California if you plant it in a location that is slightly warmer in the winter. Close to a heated buil...Read More
Largest American bamboo- grows up to 100' in nature (tropics or Peru and Colombia) but less so in So Cal (maybe 1/2 that). Has thick cul...Read More