| Scientific Name: | Fargesia nitida |
| Common Name: | fountain bamboo |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Bamboo, Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Spreading, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Columnar, Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Container planting, Hedge row, Mixed shrub border, Screening, Specimen plant, Tall background, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Lanceolate |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Yellow, Purple |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Clump forming bamboo; new culms emerge in summer, olive coloured, slender, no grove, and always with more than three branches arising from the nodes; leaves point down on twiggy whorls at nodes. | |