Pleioblastus fortunei (Van Houtte) Nakai
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- Family
- Poaceae
- Botanical Name
- Pleioblastus fortunei (Van Houtte) Nakai
- Common Name
- Pygmy Bamboo, Dwarf Fern-leaf Bamboo
- Synonym(s)
- Pleioblastus pygmaeus (Miq.) Nakai; Pleioblastus variegatus (Sieb. ex Miq.) Makino
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Not in Flora of Virginia
- Comments
- This low-growing bamboo is frequently cultivated and is often described as "invasive" in horticultural literature; however, it has not been reported as an escape in other states, as far as we know. The Virginia populations must be regarded as adventive until proven otherwise.
- Habitat
- Reported by Steury (Banisteria 37, 2011) from the bank of Dead Run in Fairfax County, a site at which it could not have been planted. More recently found at another site on the George Washington Memorial Parkway (B. Steury, pers. comm.), and by Sharon Snyder in a forest near Crozet, Albemarle County. See also Steury, Triplett, and Parrish (Castanea 78(2): 138-139) for additional details about some of these collections and others in nearby Maryland and the District of Columbia.
- Native Status
- Introduced
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