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