Yin Yang Bamboo
Location
Bamboo Garden
- Common Name: Yin Yang Bamboo (other common names: Bambusa, Tropical Bamboo ‘Viridiflavus’)
- Scientific Name: Bambusa emeiensis ‘Viridiflav’
- Family Name: Poaceae
- Origin: E. Asia – southern China
- Height: over 40’
- Width: 20’ – 30’
- Growth: Extremely fast
- Zone: 9B – 11
- Light Needs: Full sun – Partial shade
- Salt Tolerance: unknown
- Soil/PH/Texture: mildly acidic – neutral (pH 6.1 – 7.5)
- Soil Moisture: average water needs, do not over water
- Drought Tolerance: low
- Pests/Diseases: is considered a very insect and disease resilient plant, but …occasionally you may see insect.
- Growing Conditions: easy to grow and low maintenance
- Characteristics: grown for its foliage, green culms extremely erect with yellow stripes alternating 180° on each internode, up to 2.5’ culms in diameter, beautiful with dark purple tips, large green leaves, and a very unusual striping pattern.
- Propagation: by dividing the root ball-rhizomes, tubers, bulbs, or offsets, by culm and branch cuttings, and by seed.
- Wildlife: unknown
- Facts: This plant is harvested from the wild has been cultivated for its canes that are used for household weaving to agricultural tools.
- Designer Considerations: use as a magnificent specimen, backdrop along a corner or border of the property, hedge, screen, protect the soil from erosion.
