How can I tell if I have a real bamboo plant or if it's a Dracaena sanderiana "Lucky Bamboo"?

**Lucky bamboo is not a true bamboo. It is a Dracaena, which is in the ((lily ))family. True bamboo is much more hardy than this Dracaena.


http://www.bambooheadquarters.com/luckyb...


**Lucky Bamboo IS NOT of the corn family. Lucky bamboo comes from the LILLY family.


**Bamboo and corn is actually


from the same family which is the GRASS family.


http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entr...


**Not all bamboo spreads like weeds or anything else.


**There are two (2) types of bamboo


running and clumping.


***Runners versus Clumpers****


.....We've all heard the horror stories: "Don't plant bamboo - that stuff will take over your whole neighborhood!" Bamboos have quite a reputation for invasiveness, and it is true that some kinds do spread quite aggressively. *****What is less well known is that there is a whole category of bamboos that do not spread aggressively***** and do not represent a threat to the neighborhood, and that even the spreading types vary considerably in their rate of spread.


http://www.floridabamboo.com/about.html


***Chrys is not completely informed as to what bamboo actually is or does.


***Bamboo is one of the worlds great resources for wood replacement. It grows very fast and in many cases is harder than the wood The world is just beginning to realize that about bamboo....How great to stop cutting down our forests and replacing it with something that can grow back within a year or so.





One way to tell the difference bamboo won't be sold bare rooted and in a glass of water.

How can I tell if I have a real bamboo plant or if it's a Dracaena sanderiana "Lucky Bamboo"?
most real bamboo plants are much larger than lucky bamboo. also if it has a decorative container or the bamboo is shaped in a design it is Lucky Bamboo.
Reply:lucky bamboo is actually a corn plant...so real bamboo is easy to spot. Real bamboo has leaves at each 'joint', not just on the top. Real bamboo is also different colors. (red, purple, gold, green...) corn plants are just green.


Real bamboo SPREADS like weeds, corn plants don't...Real bamboo needs soil, corn plants only need water.
Reply:http://gardening.about.com/od/perennials...


http://www.luckybamboo.com/