The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Pseudosasa japonica
Also called Japanese Arrow Bamboo
Arrow bamboo is a vigorous, clump-forming bamboo native to Japan and Korea, grown widely as an ornamental and hedge or screen plant. It spreads into thickets up to 6 m tall, so give it room or a containment barrier.
Pseudosasa japonica, the arrow bamboo (Japanese: metake), is a species of bamboo in the grass family Poaceae native to Japan and Korea, but planted worldwide as a horticultural plant.
This cold hardy bamboo species (tolerant to 0 °F/−17.7 °C) grows well both in shade and full sun. Pseudosasa japonica does very well in containers and salty air near the ocean. Because it tends to be more shade tolerant than other bamboo species it is often used by gardeners as an understory to a tree-lined living fence. In cultivation in the UK this species has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pseudosasa japonica 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.
