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Aulonemia pumila

Aulonemia pumila
Photo: Alesjif, CC BY-SA 4.0

Aulonemia pumila is a small, low-growing clumping bamboo from the grass family, endemic to Colombia's wet tropical forests. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance is drawn mainly from related understorey bamboos.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist, watering when the top layer begins to dry.
Soil
Rich, humus-heavy, well-draining mix.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Colombia
Climate
wet tropical

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Aulonemia pumila is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae. It is a bamboo endemic to Colombia.

Other Aulonemia plants

Aulonemia amplissima · Aulonemia aristulata · Aulonemia bogotensis · Aulonemia boliviana · Aulonemia chimantaensis · Aulonemia cochabambensis · Aulonemia deflexa · Aulonemia dinirensis · Aulonemia fuentesii · Aulonemia goyazensis · Aulonemia haenkei · Aulonemia herzogiana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aulonemia pumila by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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