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Golden Bamboo
Phyllostachys aurea
Golden Bamboo is a short, dense running bamboo grown mainly for its shoots - rated the sweetest of the genus - along with light craft canes for stakes, handles and walking sticks. Its rhizome mat is aggressive enough that clearing it is notoriously difficult even behind hardscape barriers, so it needs a permanent walkable boundary on every side, with goats or cattle grazing the perimeter to help hold the line. Its heavy leaf litter can devastate a stream's food web if it ever reaches moving water, so it belongs on upland ground well away from any creek, pond margin or swale.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 4–10
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Dry · Well-Drained · Moderate
Vertical layer
Shrub- Soil pH
- 6–8
- Plant type
- Grass
- Mature height
- 15–20 ft
- Mature spread
- 12–25 ft
- Plant spacing
- 7.9–12 ft
- Root type
- Rhizome
- Spread pattern
- Root
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