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Semiarundinaria fastuosa (narihira bamboo)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Semiarundinaria fastuosa, common names Narihira bamboo, Narihira cane, and Narihiradake, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to Japan. Growing to 7 m (23 ft) tall by 2 m (7 ft) broad, it is a vigorous, evergreen bamboo with dark green cylindrical canes and dense tufts of lanceolate, glossy green leaves, up to 20 cm (8 in) long. In cultivation it is useful as an architectural plant or screen. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. The specific epithet fastuosa is Latin for "proud".
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Attributes

Diameter [1]  1.5 inches (3.81 cm)
Height [1]  30 feet (9.144 m)
Growth Form [1]  Rhizomatous
Structure [2]  Bamboo
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 7 Low Temperature: 0 F° (-17.8 C°) → 10 F° (-12.2 C°)
Light Preference [1]  Full Sun

Predators

Antonina crawi (cottony bamboo scale)[3]
Odonaspis secreta[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Puccinia kusanoi[4]
Puccinia longicornis[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1American Bamboo Society Species List
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0