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Bambusa textilis
Also called Weaver's Bamboo
Textile bamboo (Bambusa textilis) is a clump-forming bamboo grown mainly for hedges, screens and windbreaks. Its key to success is full sun to part shade, regular moisture and room for its fast-spreading clump, and the Gracilis variety is the most widely grown form.
Bambusa textilis, also known as slender bamboo, clumping bamboo and weaver's bamboo, is a species of bamboo in the Poaceae (grasses) family that is native to China. The subspecies var. gracilis is heavily cultivated in Australia.
It is cultivated in particular to constitute hedges or privacy screens in suburban yards and can be planted in subtropical/tropical gardens where it can complement the native rainforest flora, and as well as in garden beds near a fence. It can also provide both noise and wind break, in addition to tolerating winds and temperatures as low as −10 °C (14 °F). Growing best in full sun to part shade, it may benefit from some mulch and nitrogen fertiliser.
The variety var. gracilis is one of the most popular bamboos, especially in Australia, which is known as Gracilis bamboo, that forms a sightly slender clump and grows no more than 8 meters (26 ft) high. It reaches maturity within 3–5 years, depending on the weather and soil. A gracilis in a 200 mm (7.9 in) container would usually grow to around 3 to 4 meters (9.8 to 13.1 ft) in 12 months. The glabra variety features more white on the lower areas of the internodes, giving the plant a striped appearance, and the fusca variety is larger, growing up to 12 meters (39 ft) and would top a 3-storey building.
In its native southern China, it usually found near rivers, on hills and villages at low altitudes in the Anhui, Guangdong, Fujian and Guangxi provinces. It has been naturalized in Hawaii, Florida, Colombia and Puerto Rico.
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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.
