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Widespread and scattered throughout the UK. Habitat includes: damp woods, banks or streams and rivers, estates etc. Introduced to Britain in around 1889 and first recorded wild in 1946 at Tunbridge Wells, West Kent. Commonly sold as the cultivar 'Nebulosa.'

Stace 4:

Sasa palmata (Burb.) E.G. Camus - Broad-leaved Bamboo.

Stems 2-3m, 7-10mm thick; leaves 12-30(40) x 3.5-9cm, with 8-14 veins on either side of midrib; false-petioles usually green; sheaths glabrous; (2n=48). Neophyte-naturalised throughout most of British Isles; Japan. The widest-leaved of our bamboos; flowered very abundantly in the 1960s.

Useful Links:

Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora

RHS

Kew

GBIF

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