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KEY TO THE BAMBOO DESCRIPTIONS

Botanical name - Common name: English, Thai, Japanese, or Chinese, etc. A short descriptive paragraph about each species or variety. The six numbers and letter codes below the description are, from left to right:

1)The sunlight tolerance for best performance - full sun, 1/2 day sun or shade.
2)Full bamboo height in feet.
3)Full diameter in inches.
4)Temperature in degrees Fahrenheit where leaf kill may begin. Rhizomes may tolerate 10-15 degrees colder.
5)Recommended USDA Zones.
6)Running bamboo are designated with an R and clumping type spreaders with a C.

DWARF BAMBOO

These beautiful low growing bamboo species come in a variety of leaf colors and growth habits. All the types listed below are hardy to Zone 7 and in some cases even Zone 6. Use dwarf bamboo for ground covers or facers in foreground plantings. All are excellent in pots. Many make ideal bonsai specimens and houseplants.

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BAMBOO NAME

NOTE

1 GAL

2 GAL

3 GAL

OTHER

Pleioblastus akebono

OUT

$15

Small leaves and compact habit are enhanced by a shading and blending of green to white at the tip.
1) 1/2 2) 1 1/2' 3) 1/4" 4) 0 F 5) 7-10 6) R (follows same order in all descriptions below...)

Pleioblastus argenteostriatus - OKINA - DAKE

$15

Distinct green-white variegated leaves in spring that fade to more of a green leaf by summer. Mow in
mid-winter to encourage a spring show of new leaves.
1/2 3' 1/4" 0 F 7-10 R

Pleioblastus distichus - DWARF FERN LEAF

$15

A very small ground cover bamboo. Leaves are tiny and arranged in a fern leaf pattern. Excellent for
bonsai.
1/2 2' 1/4" -5 F 6-10 R

Pleioblastus distichus 'Mini'

OUT

$15

An even shorter version of the above at 12" tall. Brilliant green springtime growth. Needs fall mowing
to looks it's best.
Sun-1/2 1' 1/8" -5 6-10 R

Pleioblastus fortunei (Pleioblastus variegatus) - DWARF WHITESTRIPE BAMBOO

$15

$30

Stable white on green variegated color all year. Sharp looking plant.
1/2 4' 1/4" -10 F 6-10 R

Pleioblastus humilis

Compact growth and attractive leaf patterns set this dwarf from the others. Usually grows smaller and
more compact than listed.
1/2 4' 1/8" 0 F 7-10 R

Pleioblastus pygmaeus - DWARF BAMBOO

$15

A vigorous green leaved ground cover bamboo. Looks best when old growth is clipped off in mid-winter.
1/2 2' 1/8" 0 F 7-10 R

Pleioblastus shibuyanus 'Tsuboi' - UEDA-ZASA, FUIRI SHIBUYA

$10

$20

A nice mounding dwarf bamboo. The leaves are variegated with an interesting blending of the white
into the green. (Flowering in 2010-2011)
1/2 2' 1/4" 0 F 7-10 R

Pleioblastus viridi-striatus - KAMURO-ZASA

$10

$20

Brilliant golden-yellow leaves in the spring turning to green-yellow by mid-summer. Green stripes in
the leaves. Mowing in mid-winter ensures luxuriant spring color.
1/2 3' 1/4" -5 F 7-10 R

Pleioblastus viridi-striatus chrysophyllus

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$12

$22

All brilliant golden-yellow leaves. Mowing or clipping in winter enhances spring brilliance.
1/2 3' 1/4" -5 F 7-10 R

Pseudosasa owatarii

$12

$22

A very dwarf Japanese species that only grows a few inches high. Excellent bonsai for its small size
leaves. Can be a slow grower.
1/2 12" 1/8" 0 F 7-10 R

Sasa nagimontana

$12

$22

This has large attractive leaves much like the taller sasa palmata. A picture perfect smaller bamboo.
1/2 2' 1/3" 0 F 7-10 R

Sasa veitchii minor

$10

$20

A much shorter form of the shrub sized Sasa veitchii. Leaves are smaller too. Develops the same
pseudo-variegation of the leaf edge in the fall.
1/2 2' 1/4" 0 F 7-10 R

Sasaella hidaensis muraii

$15

A green leaved dwarf size bamboo from Japan. Its smaller leaves grow in nice patterns. Overall
appearance is of a neatly kept mounding form.
1/2 3' 1/4" 0 F 7-10 R

Shibatea chinensis - AI ZHU

$10

$20

Short attractive leaves grow on a slightly zig-zag stem. Leaves are somewhat wrinkled making a
different appearance than other bamboo.
1/2 3' 1/8" -10 F 6-10 R