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Fargesia nitida; photograph Kurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAKurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Fargesia nitida (Mitford ex Bean) Keng f. ex T.P.Yi

Fountain bamboo; Hardy blue bamboo; Chinese Fountain-bamboo

Poaceae · China South-Central, Inner Mongolia +2

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Fargesia nitida (Mitford ex Bean) Keng f. ex T.P.Yi: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Mitford) Keng f. ex T.P.Yi.

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Fargesia nitida, photograph Kurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFargesia nitida, photograph Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFargesia nitida, photograph Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFargesia nitida, photograph Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFargesia nitida, photograph Alberto Salguero, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFargesia nitida, photograph Djlayton4, Daniel J. Layton, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Fargesia nitida, commonly named blue fountain bamboo, is a clumping bamboo native to Sichuan, China. it is medium to small and very cold-hardy, but not tolerant of very high summer temperatures. The species bloomed in the years 2002–2005, so is not expected to bloom again for another 120 years.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Fargesia nitida", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 51 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 51 of the 51 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Inner Mongolia, China North-Central, Qinghai · introduced: Great Britain, Ireland, France · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker34.351, 106.009 · in the densest population, 23 records (45% of those in range)
Kew's description“bamboo” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 51 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 13 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 980 km away. 32 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 51 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 51 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Kurt Stüber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Alberto Salguero, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Djlayton4, Daniel J. Layton, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Fargesia 7 in the reference

Fargesia denudata Fargesia denudata Poaceae Photo: CC0, DaderotFargesia dracocephala Fargesia dracocephala Dragon's head bamboo Photo: Public domain, Cngodles at English WikipediaFargesia murielae Fargesia murielae Umbrella bamboo Photo: CC0, author not statedFargesia robusta Fargesia robusta Umbrella Bamboo Photo: CC0, DaderotFargesia rufa Fargesia rufa Poaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Anne Antoni Fargesia scabrida Scabrida bamboo Fargesia spathacea Fargesia spathacea Chinese fountain-bamboo Photo: CC0, Daderot

Names & registers

Also known as Arundinaria nitida; Bambusa nitida; Fargesia demissa; Semiarundinaria nitida; Sinarundinaria nitida and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
(Mitford ex Bean) Keng f. ex T.P.Yi
Native to
China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, China North-Central +1
Wild records
51 in range · 13 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 8104555 is Fargesia nitida (Mitford) Keng f. ex T.P.Yi; the page links Kew's Fargesia nitida (Mitford ex Bean) Keng f. ex T.P.Yi, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 8 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (8 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2251 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 20 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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