Scientific name: Bambusa Ventricosa Common name: Buddha Belli Bamboo From: Vietnam, Taiwan and southern china Average height: 8 mts Average diameter: 3 y 4 inches Radicular classification: grows in stump Uses: ornamental, private fences Characteristics: ventricosa is a wonderful bamboo plant since it is not an invading plant. The nudes are bulked and if they are in stressed conditions they are bulked even

Scientific name : Gigantocloa Aff From: Asia Average height: 15 mts Average diameter: 3 pulg. Radicular classification: grows in stump Uses: light constructions, erosion control Characteristics: it is a bamboo of great beauty. Medium size with dark bracts lacking hairs.

Scientific name : Gigantocloa Pseudoarundinacea From: Asia Average height: 25 mts Average diameter: 4 – 4 ½inches. Radicular classification: grows in stump Uses: ornamental, fences Characteristics: the young canes are light green with fine yellow stripes.

Scientific name: Phyllostachys Nigra Boryana Common name: Bory/ Leopard bamboo From: Asia Average height: 3 mts Average diameter: ¾inches Radicular classification: sliding Uses: ornamental Characteristics: small size, green color, brownish spotted, it forms dense plantations, very strong fiber.

Scientific name: Shibataea Kumasaca Common name: Ruscus- Leafed Bamboo From: China Average height: 50 cm Uses: ornamental Characteristics: among the small size bamboos this is the only one with dark green leaves. Alkaline soil is not recommendable for this type the bamboo. It needs acid conditions to prevent the burning on the leaves. This bamboo is very resistant to the bamboo’s

Scientific name: Ampelocalamus Scandens From: China Average height: 5 mts Average diameter: ½inches Uses: ornamental, paper manufacture Characteristics: the culms of this type of bamboo have the nudes a little swelled. It has many branches but they are rarely longer than the culms

Scientific name: Bambu Bosque del Cabo (Bambusa S.P) From: Asia Average height: 4 mts Average diameter: ¾ inches Radicular classification: grows in stump Uses: ornamental Characteristics: small size, strong and erected stalks almost solid

Scientific name: Bambusa Beechayana Variedad Pubenses Common name: Beechey’s Bamboo From: Asia/ China, Hong Kong Average height: 25 mts Average diameter: 4-5 inches Radicular classification: grows in stump Uses: ornamental, eatable culms Characteristics: it develops a rounded bush. Sometimes takes a kind of white-green color. Erected bamboo with thicker hair nodes and lower branches.

Scientific name: Bambusa Tuldoides Common name: Punting Pole Bamboo From: China Average height: 10 mts Average diameter: 1.5 inches Radicular classification: grows in stump Uses: ornamental Characteristics: similar to the bambusa tulda but not that big and robust. It produces a big amount of thick canes that grow in groups and vey tight. It has a lot of branches and leaves. Dark green

Scientific name: Bambusa Multiplex Alphons Karr From: Asia Average height: 3 mts Average diameter: 2 pulg Radicular classification: grows in stump Uses: ornamental of great beauty Characteristics: small size and unusual orange-yellow colored bamboo but at the beginning it is pink. It has fine stripes between the nodes. It can be kept in interiors. Robust and easy growth

Scientific name: Bambusa Multiplex Elegans From: Asia Average height: 8 mts Average diameter: 1.5 pulg Radicular classification: grows in stump Uses: ornamental, fences or high barriers Characteristics: medium size, this bamboo is of a small leaf with great beauty and thin canes

Scientific name: Schizostachyum Jaculams Common name: Umbrella Bamboo From: Asia Average height: 15 mts Average diameter: 2 inches Radicular classification: grows in stump Uses: ornamental. The long internodes are used to make flutes and blowlamps. Characteristics: it has an open form or like an umbrella. In groups it forms an attractive mushroom.

Scientific name: Arundinaria S-P From: China Average height: 1 mts Average diameter: 5 mm Radicular classification: sliding Uses: ornamental Characteristics: very small size, a lot of foliage, medium size leaf.

Scientific name: Phyllostachys Megurochiku From: Japon Average height: 2 mts Average diameter: ½ inches Radicular classification: sliding Uses: ornamental Characteristics: small size, green with a brown line on the culms.

Scientific name: Phyllostachys Nigra Common name: Black Bamboo / tan zhu (china), kuro-dake (japon) From: China Average height: 3mts Average diameter: 1 ½ pulg Radicular classification: sliding Uses: ornamental Characteristics: one the most popular bamboos among the black canes. The leaves are with an intense green. The canes emerge green and gradually they turn black when they have three years.

Scientific name: Chimonobambusa Marmorea Variedad Variegata From: Asiatico, China Average height: 1-2 mts Average diameter: ½ inches Radicular classification: sliding Uses: ornamental Characteristics: small size, it is one of most colored bamboos, the canes are bright yellow and they turn red when exposed to the sun.