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Botanical name
Shibataea kumasaca.
Origin
South Japan.
Characteristics
Fortune Inviting Bamboo doesn’t look like
bamboo. And yet, whatever that thing about bamboo that evokes response
is, Fortune Inviting has it. It is a most attractive bamboo.
Squat with broad leaves 30 - 50 cm high.
Use
Grow along borders as a low hedge clipped into shape or not, as undergrowth
where it will suppress growth of smaller plants ie. weeds. It is
also very effective growing over extensive areas as a ground cover
where, with minimal help, it will dominate.
Requirements
It likes cool places, light shade uniform moisture. |
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Interest
The second week in full summer we cut it right
back to the ground because soon afterwards new shoots will
appear, just like a field of grass. The broad, light green leaves
unfurl then they turn bluish.
In Japan it is used as live fences,
flower garden edging, cluster plantings and ground cover.
In Southern Japan (Kyushu) culms are dyed and used for weaving. |
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