Poaceae
Arrow bamboo
Pseudosasa japonica
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Pseudosasa
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Common names
By language (2)
- Chinese
- 包箨箭竹, 包籜矢竹, 包籜箭竹, 矢竹仔
- English
- Arrow bamboo
Synonyms
- Arundinaria japonica Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.
- Arundinaria matake Siebold ex Miq.
- Arundinaria metake Siebold ex Miq.
- Arundinaria metake G.Nicholson
- Arundinaria usawai Hayata
- Bambusa japonica hort.
- Bambusa japonica (Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) G.Nicholson
- Bambusa mete Siebert & Voss
- Pleioblastus usawae (Hayata) Ohwi
- Pseudosasa japonica f. akebono H.Okamura
- Pseudosasa japonica f. akebonosuzi H.Okamura
- Pseudosasa japonica f. flavovariegata (Makino) Muroi
- Pseudosasa japonica f. variegata Muroi
- Pseudosasa japonica var. flavovariegata Makino
- Pseudosasa japonica var. purpurascens Nakai
- Pseudosasa japonica var. tsutsumiana Yanagita
- Pseudosasa japonica var. usawae (Hayata) Muroi
- Pseudosasa usawae (Hayata) Makino & Nemoto
- Pseudosasa usawai (Hayata) Makino & Nemoto
- Sasa japonica (Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino
- Sasa japonica f. hakonensis I.Tsuboi
- Yadakeya japonica (Steud.) Makino
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid, Shrub, Subshrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
Photo: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Jordi Coll Costa, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Marija Gajić, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Marija Gajić, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Marija Gajić, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Marija Gajić, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Marija Gajić, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.