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Saturday - February 25, 2012
From: Hendersonville, NC
Region: Southeast
Topic: Invasive Plants, Non-Natives
Title: How many Bamboo species are native to North Carolina? one
Answered by: Jimmy Mills
QUESTION:
I would like to know how many bamboo plants are native to North Carolina?ANSWER:
Bamboo is the largest of the grasses, and there are over 1600 species of the plant, 64 percent of which are native to Southeast Asia. Thirty-three percent grows in Latin America, and the rest in Africa and Oceania. In North America there are only three native species of bamboo as opposed to the 440 species native to Latin America. (click here for more).
The three species of Bamboo native to North America are:
Arundinaria gigantea
Phyllostachys nigra
Sasa sp. (click here for more information)
As you can see, only Arundinaria is native to North Carolina, but the other two are close.
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