Golden bamboo
Phyllostachys aurea (André) Rivière & C.Rivière
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.7 m
- wide
- 4.0 m
Poaceae
Also called Fishpole bamboo
Formerly Bambusa aurea, Phyllostachys breviligula, Phyllostachys formosana
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- BambooKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- China (Fujian, Zhejiang) to VietnamKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 6.3 m to 7.1 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 15–20 ft; Wikipedia 8–8 m
- Spread
- 4.0 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 12–25 ft; Wikipedia 4–4 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.8 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -34.4 °C; Wikipedia -23.3 °C
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Bambú dorado
- Portuguese
- Bambú-dourado
- Japanese
- ホテイチク, 布袋竹, ゴサンチク
- Chinese
- 羅漢竹, 人面竹, 布袋竹
- Russian
- Золотой бамбук, Листоколосник золотистый
- Catalan
- Bambú groc
- Chinese (China)
- 罗汉竹, 台湾人面竹
- Dutch
- Gouden bamboe
- Italian
- bambù dorato
- Indonesian
- Pringgodani
- Polish
- Fylostachys złocisty
- French
- bambou doré
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Phyllostachys aurea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.