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Arundinaria is a genus of bamboo in the grass family the members of which are referred to generally as cane. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Arundinaria is the only bamboo native to North America, with a native range from Maryland south to Florida and west to the southern Ohio Valley and Texas .
Cane is any of various tall, perennial grasses with flexible, woody stalks from the genera Arundinaria, [1] and Arundo. Scientifically speaking, they are either of two genera from the family Poaceae. [citation needed] The genus Arundo is native from the Mediterranean Basin to the Far East. The genus Arundinaria is a bamboo (Bambuseae) found
Arundinarieae is a tribe of bamboo in the grass family containing a single subtribe, Arundinariinae, and 31 genera. [1] These woody bamboos occur in areas with warm temperate climates in southeastern North America, Subsaharan Africa, South Asia and East Asia.
Arundinaria appalachiana, commonly known as hill cane, is a woody bamboo native to the Appalachian Mountains in the southeastern United States. The plant was elevated to the species level in 2006 based on new morphological and genetic information and was previously treated as a variety of Arundinaria tecta .
Arundinaria alabamensis grows from 3–8 ft (0.9–2.4 m) in height, with erect and tillering internodes. [1] The nodes are solitary with one bud per node on a triangular shoulder of the prophyll ciliate. The culm leaves at mid-culm are shorter, but become increasingly longer towards the culm apex. [1]
Arundinaria tecta, or switchcane, [4] is a bamboo species native to the Southeast United States, [4] [5] first studied in 1813. [6] Arundinaria tecta is very similar in appearance to many other Arundinaria species, making it hard to distinguish between species. [7] It serves as host to several butterfly species. [8]
Arundinaria gigantea is a species of bamboo known as giant cane (not to be confused with Arundo donax), river cane, and giant river cane. It is endemic to the south-central and southeastern United States as far west as Oklahoma and Texas and as far north as New York. Giant river cane was economically and culturally important to indigenous ...
Arundo is native to southern Europe, North Africa, and much of temperate Asia as far east as Japan. [3] They grow to 3–6 m tall, occasionally to 10 m, with leaves 30–60 cm long and 3–6 cm broad.