Pleioblastus distichus 'Mini' Canopy Trees The shrub has a tangled

The shrub has a tangled and rather charming pedigree

'Gold Top' is a Woodlanders introduction

green berries ripening to gold while fresh blue sprays open above them

and the genus Magnolia remembers Pierre Magnol

Photo courtesy of Skylark

Pleioblastus distichus 'Mini' Canopy Trees The shrub has a tangledPleioblastus distichus 'Mini' is the smallest of the running bamboos, a fine textured dwarf that behaves more like a groundcover than a grove. The tiny, glossy leaves line up in flat, two ranked sprays, fern like and neat, on threadlike stems only eight or ten inches high, building a dense green carpet that can be mowed or edged like a lawn. Despite the fern like delicacy, this is a true bamboo, a member of the grass family from Japan, and the epithet