Fargesia rufa
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| Fargesia rufa T.P.Yi 1985 |
This article is about the species. For the cultivar sometimes incorrectly sold under the same name, see Fargesia 'Rufa'.
Fargesia rufa is a woody bamboo native to western China. It is known in Chinese as qingchuan jianzhu (Chinese: 青川箭竹; pinyin: qīngchuānjiǎnzhú), meaning "Qingchuan Fargesia", Qingchuan being a county within the prefecture-level city of Guangyuan in the north of Sichuan. It is found at high elevations in the north of this province as well is in the south of Gansu. The plant is a significant source of food for the giant panda.[1]
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- ^ Li, De-Zhu; Guo, Zhenhua; Stapleton, Chris (2007), “Fargesia rufa”, in Wu, Z. Y.; Raven, P.H.; Hong, D.Y., Flora of China, vol. 22, Beijing: Science Press; St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press, pp. 81
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