A tall, upright bamboo that is ideal for hedging or screening in larger areas. The award-winning fish-pole bamboo has grooved canes that emerge each summer bright green, but if grown in sun, will turn yellowish brown as they mature. These colourful canes can really be shown off if the lower leaves are stripped, and it will then make an elegant, stand-alone specimen.

This beautiful and vigorous plant propagates primarily through rhizomes and is considered a running bamboo. In small gardens, it is best restricted in suitably large containers, planted out in a partly sunken pot, or planted within a root barrier, placed around the root mass to maintain an appropriate spread. Please see our bamboo control system here.