Bamboos Are Vigorous Growing Plants That Quickly Spread Beyond Their Original Planting Site

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Bamboos are vigorous growing plants that quickly spread beyond their original planting site. Golden bamboo can form dense thickets BAMBOO that displace native species . Running bamboos, such as the genus (Bambusa, Phyllostachys Phyllostachys , develop from long, slender rhizomes that send up aerial & Pseudosasa species) stems at intervals along the rhizome, and are generally very invasive once established. Rhizomes of running bamboos can grow more than thirty feet in one year. Clump-type bamboos, such as those in the genus Bambusa , spread at a slower rate.

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