'Green Panda' is a cultivar clumping bamboo in the Poaceae (grass) family and is native to China. Clumping bamboos are not invasive as are the ones with running roots. This plant grows 6-10 feet tall and wide, rarely flowers and has a vase shape with arching stems. It is evergreen, cold-hardy, heat-tolerant, drought-tolerant and deer-resistant. "Green Panda' does best with some protection from the hot afternoon sun and cold winter winds. It prefers fertile, moist, well-drained soils in part shade but will tolerate full sun and average well-drained garden soils. This short clumping bamboo makes an elegant upright arching fountain of stems with culm sheaths that are reddish-brown. Being evergreen, it makes a good hedge for a privacy screen. You can also use this plant in containers and around paved areas such as patios and pools. Insects, Diseases, and Other Plant Problems: No significant problems. VIDEO created by Andy Pulte for “Landscape Plant Identification, Taxonomy and Morphology” a plant identification course offered by the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee.
Curated pairwise relationships between this plant and others in the library — who feeds
whom, who competes, who confuses the pests. Green reads as a good pairing, red as one to avoid.
No curated interactions recorded for this species yet.
Also noted by NC State
Related species the NC State Plant Toolbox flags for this plant — look-alikes to tell
apart, and plants that play a similar role in a planting. Ones we carry in the library are linked.