Note: the heading for each table contains a link to additional information. The Sources links will take you to the contact information for the growers who usually, or sometimes, carry that species.
| feet meters |
max diam inch cm |
min temp °F °C |
shade sun 5=full sun |
Comments - Description | Sources | ||||||
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| RADDIA | Small herbaceous clump-forming bamboos. Leaves numerous, often in crowded ladder-like complements. Exhibit sleep movements, leaves fold upwards at night or under moisture or temperature stress. | ||||||||||
| R. brasiliensis |
2 | 3 | Flowers frequently, although spikelets inconspicuous. Needs constant water, good drainage, and chelated iron. | ||||||||
| 1 | |||||||||||
| R. distichophylla |
1 | Fern-like leaves, up to 20 pairs of leaves. Thrives in cultivation. Small (no height spec available). | |||||||||
| 0 | |||||||||||
| feet meters |
max diam inch cm |
min temp °F °C |
shade sun 5=full sun |
Comments - Description | Sources | ||||||
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| RHIPIDOCLADUM | A genus of American clumping bamboos which grow from Mexico to Argentina, at low to moderate elevations. | ||||||||||
| R. pittieri |
30 | 0.4 | They arch and droop forming graceful curtains of foliage over canyon walls, on wet cliffs in Costa Rica. | D4 | |||||||
| 9 | 1 | ||||||||||
| R. racemiflorum |
15 | 1 | 26 | Slender culms grow up into trees; tips hang down as long vines carrying tufts of small light green leaves. | F3 I1 P4 | ||||||
| 5 | 2.5 | -3 | |||||||||
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