Yellow Bamboo & Black Bamboo


Photo: Bamboo Downunder		Yellow Bamboo & Black Bamboo Phyllostachys aurea & Phyllostachys Nigra Trees and Shrubs ACT & High Country Region

	Cultivated as ornamentals, these two varieties are very invasive weeds in gardens, bushland and wasteland.

HOW IT SPREADS They have a spreading habit, sending their invasive rhizomes (roots) underground where they will travel many metres. If the roots are disturbed or find fertile ground they will produce shoots and establish.

Any type of running rhizomatous bamboo is to be avoided, avoid planting these and choose the clumping types instead.

Alternative Plants


Photo: Bamboo Downunder		Chungi Bambusa chungii Trees and Shrubs

	This is a highly ornamental and traditional bamboo. The new shoots and young culms are heavily covered in white powder, giving them a bluish appearance. A vigorous growing and hardy bamboo, it can withstand frost, cold wind and dry winters.

Photo: Bamboo Downunder		Gold Stripe Bambusa multiplex Trees and Shrubs

	Clumping bamboo to 3m high With erect growth and stems 3.5cm across, bright yellow, striped green leaves. A very attractive and ideal garden specimen.

Photo: Bamboo Downunder		Oldhami Bambusa oldhamii Trees and Shrubs

	A favourite of collectors, also called 'Giant Timber Bamboo'. Growing to 15m high with useable timber, Oldhami is a good 'all-rounder'. It has the highest quality edible shoots and is frost hardy. This bamboo will form as excellent ornamental windbreak