Bamboozle

Trebah has an excellent collection of bamboos, planted in a maze of paths known as the Bamboozle

There are many different species and cultivars to be found there; some with black canes, golden brown canes, yellow canes, green canes and even square canes!

It would be impossible anywhere within the British Isles for such a growth rate to be sustained indefinitely, but specimens at Trebah do regularly reach 10m tall in just one growing season.

Bamboos at Trebah

There are 1500 species of bamboo in the world. Virtually every continent has its native bamboos except Europe, particularly the orient and South America. The first bamboo to be introduced, Phyllostachys nigra, arrived in 1826 at a London nursery and now there are around 200 hardy varieties in the UK.

At Trebah we have 47 different species. These can all be explored by clicking on each bamboo genus below.

Chimonobambusa

Origin: China, Burma, Japan and Himalayas

Chusquea

Origin: Mexico to South Argentina

Drepanostachyum

Origin: China, India, Pakistan, Nepal

Fargesia

Origin: China, Vietnam, eastern Himalayas

Himalayacalamus

Origin: Bhutan, Tibet, India, and Nepal

Indocalamus

Origin: China, Vietnam and Japan

Phyllosasa

Origin: Japan

Phyllostachys

Origin: China, Japan, Vietnam, India and Nepal

Pleioblastus

Origin: China and Japan

Pseudosasa

Origin: Japan & Korea

Sasa

Origin: Japan, Korea, China

Sasaella

Origin: Japan

Semiarundinaria

Origin: Japan

Shibataea

Origin: Fujian & Zhejiang Provinces of China

Thamnocalamus

Origin: Himalayas, Madagascar, Southern Africa

Yushania

Origin: Himalayas, Africa, China, south east Asia