Chusquea galeottiana
Common names
Mexican climbing bamboo
Biostatus
Exotic
Conservation status
Not applicable
Category
Vascular
Structural class
Lianes - Monocots
Simplified description
Clumping bamboo with slender climbing/arching stems to 6 m; stems terete, solid.
Detailed taxonomy
Genus
Family
Endemic family
No
Ecology
Year naturalised
Seedlings first collected in NZ in 2018*
Origin
Southern Mexico
Reason for introduction
Ornamental
Life cycle and dispersal
*Established in large garden near Whanganui, as a dense thicket after the planted parent plant flowered and died in 2012.