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Bambusa pallida

Bambusa pallida
Photo: Dvellakat, CC BY-SA 3.0

Bambusa pallida is a clumping bamboo from the Eastern Himalaya to southwest China and the Malay Peninsula, grown mainly as an ornamental or for culms in warm, humid climates. It needs moist, well-drained soil and room to spread slowly around its clump.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season and reduce watering in cooler months.
Soil
Fertile, well-drained loam or garden soil with organic matter.
Temperature
18-30 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Safety
Not known to be toxic
Native range
Sikkim to China (SW. Yunnan) and Pen. Malaysia
Climate
wet tropical

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Bambusa pallida is a species of bamboo.

Other Bambusa plants

Bambusa affinis · Bambusa albolineata · Bambusa amplexicaulis · Bambusa angustiaurita · Bambusa angustissima · Top End Bamboo · Bambusa aurinuda · Bambusa australis · Cape Bamboo · Thorny Bamboo · Bambusa barpatharica · Pin Bamboo

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bambusa pallida 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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