Sasa veitchii (Kuma bamboo grass, Kuma zasa)
Photo/Illustration: Chris Curless
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Sasa masumuneana
( Albostriata Bamboo )
(Plant width:indefinite) Moderately spreading, low-growing bamboo with slim, shiny, bright green culms; one branch is produced at each node. Elliptic, medium green leaves reach 4 to 7 inches long.
Members of the genus Sasa
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: ...
Broadleaf Bamboo
Scientific Name: Sasa palmata (Burb.) E.G.Camus
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Family: Poaceae ...
Sasa sp. Dwarf bamboo. From East Asia.
Sea Island cotton. (Gossypium barbadense). Imported to Bermuda in the early 1600s and once planted extensively, once woven and dyed at Ireland Island, now purely an ornamental.
Sasa palmata (see our bamboo profile for a fuller list of invasive bamboos)
Phalaris arundinacea
Phragmites australis
Weeping sedge (Carex pendula) ...
Sasa
Persistent dry, papery culm sheaths. A single branch per node. Leaf margins often attractively bleached in Winter. Likes to go about from place to place aimlessly. (The Concise Oxford Dictionary - Ninth Edition, definition of 'Wander of').
The genus is thought to be a naturally occurring intergeneric hybrid between Phyllostachys and Sasa from Honshu, Japan. It has inherited the 2 branches per node of Phyllostachys and the large leaves of a Sasa. Hardy to -13° F.
Sasa sp, and Sasaella sp. In addition, there are a number of things that look like bamboo, and are called bamboo, but aren't, like Pogonatherum crinitum ("German bamboo") and Peperomia 'Bamboo Stalks.
84-101/1470. Bambusa (120), Chusquea (200), Sasa (60), Phyllostachys (55), Arundinaria (50). Tropical to temperate, often in forests (map: see Judziewicz et al. 1999; Sungkaew et al. 2009).
Acorus gramineus - Japanese Sweetflag
Carex species - Sedge
Chasmanthium latifolium - Northern Sea Oats
Deschampsia cespitosa - Tufted Hair Grass
Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola' - Japanese Forest Grass
Sasa veitchii - Veitch's Bamboo ...
 See also: Bamboo, Green, Grass, May, Grasses
  
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