{{Short description|Species of grass}} {{Speciesbox | image = Pseudosasa japonica6.jpg | image_caption = | genus = Pseudosasa | species = japonica | authority = (Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino ex Nakai<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=42043 |title=ITIS Standard Report Page: Pseudosasa japonica |publisher=Itis.gov |date=2009-11-24 |access-date=2011-08-30}}</ref> | synonyms = *''Arundinaria japonica'' <small>Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.</small> *''Sasa japonica'' <small>(Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino</small> *''Yadakeya japonica'' <small>(Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino</small><ref name="autogenerated1"/><ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite web|url=https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PSJA |title=PLANTS Profile for Pseudosasa japonica (arrow bamboo) &#124; USDA PLANTS |publisher=Plants.usda.gov |date= |access-date=2011-08-30}}</ref> *''Arundinaria japonica'' <small>Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.</small><ref name="autogenerated1" /><ref name="autogenerated2" /><ref name = RHSPF /><ref name="Florida-Atlas" /> }} [[File:Pseudosasa japonica7.jpg|250px|thumb|''Pseudosasa japonica'' (diameter 15 to 25 mm by eye measurement, Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture Japan)]] '''''Pseudosasa japonica''''', the '''arrow bamboo'''<ref name="autogenerated2"/> (Japanese: '''metake'''),<ref name = RHSPF/> is a species of bamboo in the grass family Poaceae native to Japan and Korea, but planted worldwide as a horticultural plant.

== Description == This vigorous bamboo forms thickets up to {{convert|6|m|ft|abbr=on}} tall with shiny leaves up to {{convert|25 |cm|in|abbr=on}} long.<ref name="RHSPF" /> The culms are typically yellow-brown and it has palm-like leaves. The common name "arrow bamboo" results from the Japanese samurai using its hard and stiff canes for their arrows.<ref name="CMB">{{cite web | url= http://www.capemaybamboo.com/JAPANESE-ARROW-BAMBOO.html| title= Cape May Bamboo - ''Pseudosasa Japonica'' (Japanese Arrow Bamboo)| access-date= 2012-03-11}}</ref> It grows up to {{cvt|4|cm}} a day.{{cn|date=November 2022}}

==Cultivation== This cold hardy bamboo species (tolerant to 0&nbsp;°F/−17.7&nbsp;°C) grows well both in shade and full sun. ''Pseudosasa japonica'' does very well in containers and salty air near the ocean. Because it tends to be more shade tolerant than other bamboo species it is often used by gardeners as an understory to a tree-lined living fence.<ref name=CMB/> In cultivation in the UK this species has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.<ref name = RHSPF>{{cite web | url = https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/14080/i-Pseudosasa-japonica-i/Details | title = RHS Plantfinder - ''Pseudosasa japonica'' | access-date = 23 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/pdfs/agm-lists/agm-ornamentals.pdf | title = AGM Plants - Ornamental | date = July 2017 | page = 82 | publisher = Royal Horticultural Society | access-date = 23 September 2018}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Florida-Atlas">{{cite web | title=''Pseudosasa japonica'' - Species Details | website=University of Florida - Institute for Systematic Botany - Atlas of Florida Plants | date=2015-08-14 | url=http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/plant.aspx?id=1556 | access-date=2020-12-20}}</ref> }}

==Further reading== {{Commons}} *{{Cite book|last=Ohrnberger|first=D.|title=The Bamboos of the World: Annotated Nomenclature and Literature of the Species and the Higher and Lower Taxa|publisher=Elsevier|year=1999|isbn=978-0-444-50020-5|location=Amsterdam}} *{{Cite book|title=The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|year=1992|isbn=978-0-333-47494-5|editor-last=Huxley|editor-first=Anthony|volume=1–4|location=London|editor-last2=Griffith|editor-first2=Mark|editor-last3=Levy|editor-first3=Margot}} *{{Cite book|last=Encke|first=Fritz|title=Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen|last2=Buchheim|first2=Günther|last3=Seybold|first3=Siegmund|publisher=Eugen Ulmer|year=1984|isbn=978-3-8001-5042-7|edition=13th|location=Stuttgart|language=German}} *{{Cite book|last=Ohwi|first=Jisaburo|url=https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/floraofjapaninen00oiji|title=Flora of Japan|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|year=1965|editor-last=Meyer|editor-first=Frederick G.|edition=English|location=Washington, D.C.|oclc=1123305909|editor-last2=Walker|editor-first2=Egbert H.}} *{{Cite book|last=Chung|first=Tai Hyun|title=Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fauna & Flora of Korea, Vol. 5, Tracheophyta|publisher=Samhwa Ch'ulp'an Sa|year=1965|location=Seoul|language=Korean|oclc=836718523}}

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Category:Bambusoideae Category:Flora of Japan Category:Flora of Korea Category:Grasses of Asia

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