Common Name: Bamboo Asian Wonder
Bloomtime: Spring to Fall
Bloomcolor: Deep Green
Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Height: 12-14 feet ( 4 m)
Spread: 3' to 20'
Spacing: 3' to 20'
Water: Average Water Needs
Zone: 5
Characteristics: Diameter: 0.5 to .75 inches. In the summer, Scabrida has lighter colors than in fall and winter., This elegant bamboo was collected in 1997 from the mountains of Pingwu county in Sichuan, China at an elevation over 8,500 feet. Imported by Jos van der Palen of Kimmei Nursery in Holland., Fargesia sp. ‘Scabrida’ has perhaps the most exciting colors of any hardy clumping bamboo: the young culms have dark orange sheaths, opening gradually to reveal steel-blue and lavender culms, aging to an olive green. The leaves are dark green and slender,, Clumps are covered with rusty orange sheaths that open to reveal blue almost purple shoots, that slowly fade to a deep green.
