Description
Fargesia –
There are about 4 species of clump forming. Evergreen bamboos, in this genus. They occur in damp woodlands in China and Northern Himalayas. These often vigorous bamboos are grown for their attractive linear to lance shaped, slightly checkered, bright, mid or dark green leaves, and erect culms, 6-15′ feet tall, with yellow, brown, or dark purple-green nodes. The inflorescences are terminal panicles or racemes. Grow as specimens plants, many are suitable for hedge or a screen.
Grow in fertile, moisture-retentive soil in full sun or part shade. Divide established clumps in spring. Shelter from strong cold winds.
Prone to slugs.
F. murieliae – Arundinaria murieliae – F. spaathacea of gardens – Sinarundinaria murielia – Thamnocalamu spataaceus of gardens – Umbrella Bamboo – This clump forming bamboo, similar to F. nitida, but with white powdery, yellow-green, then yellow stems, which usually branch in the first year and eventually arch under the weight of lance shaped, bright green leaves, 2 ½-6″ long, with long, drawn out tips. The deciduous leaf sheaths are downy, green purple when young, later becoming hairless and pale brown. It is rare to flower.
Zones 5-9
