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Tropical Plant Database - Plant Details
Schizostachyum glaucifolium
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Conservation Status
- IUCN: least concern
- USFWS: None
Family: POACEAE
Genus: Schizostachyum
Species: glaucifolium
Species Author: (Rupr.) Munro
Vernacular: `Ohe
Synonyms: Bambusa glaucifolium (Rupr.)
Genus: Schizostachyum
Species: glaucifolium
Species Author: (Rupr.) Munro
Vernacular: `Ohe
Synonyms: Bambusa glaucifolium (Rupr.)
An exceptionally beautiful plant that features greenish-yellow culms with darker green stripe, one of nature's best bamboo creations.
Polynesian 'Ohe, smaller than Bambusa vulgaris (3 in. x 40 ft.), is reported to set viable seed every 30 years or so. Schizostachyum glaucifolium is a very unusual bamboo having extremely thin walls, and long internodes.
(Wagner,W.L., D.R. Herbst, and S.H. Sohmer.1990. Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii.)
Polynesian 'Ohe, smaller than Bambusa vulgaris (3 in. x 40 ft.), is reported to set viable seed every 30 years or so. Schizostachyum glaucifolium is a very unusual bamboo having extremely thin walls, and long internodes.
(Wagner,W.L., D.R. Herbst, and S.H. Sohmer.1990. Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii.)
The Hawaiians used Polynesian 'Ohe as water containers, fishing poles, knives, design stamps for decorating tapa, musical instruments such as the nose flute, racing sleds and frames of a house.
(Krauss, Beatrice H. 1993. Plants in Hawaiian Culture.)
(Information for this species compiled and recorded by Camelia Cirnaru, NTBG Consultant.)
(Krauss, Beatrice H. 1993. Plants in Hawaiian Culture.)
(Information for this species compiled and recorded by Camelia Cirnaru, NTBG Consultant.)
Polynesian 'Ohe is said to be one of the "canoe plants" brought to Hawai' by early Polynesian settlers in their oceanic navigation. This plant may have originated in India or Java.
(Krauss, Beatrice H. 1993. Plants in Hawaiian Culture.)
(Krauss, Beatrice H. 1993. Plants in Hawaiian Culture.)
- 088813 - collected by Art Whistler in 1973
- 088810 - collected by Art Whistler in 1973
- 088814 - collected by Art Whistler in 1976
- 064667 - collected by Gar Clarke in 1980
- 053641 - collected by Art Whistler in 1985
- 088812 - collected by Art Whistler in 1989
- 018079 - collected by Larry Rueter in 1994
- 065761 - collected by Larry Rueter in 1994
- 065758 - collected by Larry Rueter in 1994
- 026164 - collected by K. R. Wood in 1995
- 088811 - collected by Art Whistler in 1997
- 036748 - collected by Hank Oppenheimer in 2001
- 040978 - collected by Liloa Dunn in 2003
- 063062 - collected by Nicole Shores in 2012
We currently have 14 herbarium specimens for Schizostachyum glaucifolium in our collection. Click on any specimen below to view the herbarium sheet data.
