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Pleioblastus
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Pleioblastus is an East Asian genus of monopodial bamboos in the grass family Poaceae. They are native to China and Japan, and naturalized in scattered places in Korea, Europe, New Zealand, and the Western Hemisphere.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 26
- With media
- 18
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- US, MO, NY, NHMUK, MEL, USP-IB
- Recorded in
- Japan, China, United States, United Kingdom, Brasil, Australia
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Pleioblastus is an East Asian genus of monopodial bamboos in the grass family Poaceae. They are native to China and Japan, and naturalized in scattered places in Korea, Europe, New Zealand, and the Western Hemisphere.
The plant spreads by vigorous underground rhizomes which run along just beneath the soil surface, producing plantlets at the nodes. These can be used to propagate new plants, but if not removed they can become invasive.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pleioblastus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.