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Definition of Phyllostachys bambusoides

1. Noun. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phyllostachys Bambusoides

Literary usage of Phyllostachys bambusoides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bamboo Garden by Alfred Parsons (1896)
"phyllostachys bambusoides MANY and various are the impostors that have laid ... In some essential features phyllostachys bambusoides differs from all the ..."

2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"phyllostachys bambusoides.—Several different species have been sent out under this name. But the true plant has been received from Hong Kong, and is growing ..."

3. The English Flower Garden: Design, Arrangement and Plans Followed by a by William Robinson (1895)
"phyllostachys bambusoides.— The innumerable claimants to this title have been finally sent out of court as impostors now that the real Simon Pure has been ..."

4. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1900)
"... (phyllostachys bambusoides). [Trans.] 1 The dimensions of a culm taken from a plant in the garden of the British legation were as follows : Height 19 ..."

5. The English Flower Garden: Design, Arrangement and Plans Followed by a by William Robinson (1895)
"... the Japanese send out an Arundinaria which they claim to be Phyllostachys bambusoides, which it evidently is not. The name Ya-dake— Arrow Bamboo—is due ..."

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