Bambusa spinosaRoxb.

WFO wfo-0001095990 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bambusa spinosa, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-14 / obs. 176572811
Bambusa spinosa, photographed by chiuluan
fig. b chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137941264
Bambusa spinosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 123774141
Bambusa spinosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 116177066
Bambusa spinosa, photographed by 葉子
fig. e 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 113276551
Bambusa spinosa, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館
fig. f 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82101132
Bambusa spinosa, photographed by chiuluan
fig. g chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60584486
Bambusa spinosa, photographed by agujaceratops
fig. h agujaceratops, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55655465

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Where it actually grows measured, from 281 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.7 °C 13.3 °C 16.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 29.0 °C 29.9 °C 31.1 °C
Annual rainfall 1,812 mm 2,255 mm 3,619 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 57 mm 109 mm 616 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 281 research-grade observations of Bambusa spinosa that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Arundarbor blumeana (Schult.f.) Kuntze
  • Arundarbor pungens (Blanco) Kuntze
  • Arundarbor spinosa (Roxb.) Kuntze
  • Arundarbor teba (Miq.) Kuntze
  • Arundo spinosa (Roxb.) Oken
  • Bambusa arundinacea var. spinosa (Roxb.) E.G.Camus
  • Bambusa bambos var. spinosa (Roxb.) S.S.Jain & S.Biswas
  • Bambusa blumeana Schult.f.
  • Bambusa blumeana var. luzonensis Hack.
  • Bambusa pungens Blanco
  • Bambusa spinosa Blume ex Nees
  • Bambusa stenostachya Hack.
  • Bambusa teba Miq.
  • Ischurochloa spinosa (Roxb.) Buse
  • Ischurochloa stenostachya (Hack.) Nakai

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.