Borinda Lushuiensis No 4 Yunnan Bamboo

Borinda Lushuiensis No 4 Yunnan is a beautiful ornamental bamboo with bluish new culms, an open clumping growth, and slender long green leaves. It’s a fast growing bamboo, ideal for landscaping, hedging screen, or a specimen plant, and certainly won’t disappoint.

Spread and Growing Habit

Open growth clumping non-invasive bamboo. Non running.

Over 10 years a clump of 2.5 m (7 ft.) is possible.

Height

Maximum height: 8 m (25ft) over ten years. Can reach 12m in ideal conditions.

One of the taller Borinda species.

Borinda Lushuiensis No 4 Yunnan Hardiness

Hardy to temperature of -8 ° C. The species was originally collected at 1780m.

Needs a sheltered position in light shade and best in a climate with no frost.

Culm Width

Maximum diameter: 4 cm (1.5 inches).

Culms

All new Borinda Lushuiensis No 4 Yunnan culms display  a blue powdery bloom. This blue colour eventually disappears resulting in a green culm but all new culms will be a bluish color.

Sheaths

Pale red brown sheath with hairs. Sheaths open on hot days and close up in wetter weather. Eventually the sheaths drop from the plant creating a mulch of leaves around the base that prevents weed growth and helps retain moisture in the ground.

Shoots

Shoots in early summer resulting in fresh culms with a blue tinge and attractive colourful nodes.

Leaves

Long slender drooping green leaves.

Branches

Uses of B. Lushuiensis No 4 Yunnan Bamboo

Stunning plant with an upright but open growing habit. Use for ornamental specimen bamboo in landscaping, or for privacy such as in hedging and screening around the garden. Can also be planted in large containers.

Origin

Near Lushui Xian, China

Borinda Variations

List of other bamboo in the Borinda genus.

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