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Arundinaria metake (arrow bamboo)

Attributes

Diameter [1]  0.8 inches (2.032 cm)
Height [2]  14.76 feet (4.5 m)
Width [2]  9.84 feet (3 m)
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Growth Form [1]  Rhizomatous
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Wind
Structure [2]  Bamboo
Usage [2]  Plants can be grown along the river edge to protect the banks from erosion; Canes are fairly thin walled but make very good plant supports; Smaller canes can be plaited together and used as screens or as lathes for walls and ceilings; Tolerant of maritime exposure, it can be grown as a screen or windbreak hedge in very exposed positions; The culms make an excellent wind filter, slowing its speed without creating turbulence. The leaves may look somewhat tattered by the end of the winter but plants will soon produce new leaves;
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 7 Low Temperature: 0 F° (-17.8 C°) → 10 F° (-12.2 C°)
Light Preference [1]  Mixed Sun/Shade
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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Puccinia longicornis[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1American Bamboo Society Species List
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
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