Books useful for identification
A wide range of books on the cultivation of bamboos is now available. The selection presented below are up to date, and the identification of the species they cover is satisfactory. Unfortunately this was not always the case, especially in older books written before the 1990s that have been reprinted.
These books cover all the widely cultivated species, varieties, and cultivars of horticultural importance. They can tell you how to plant, grow and care for bamboos, and the information in them complements the more technical botanical details in flora accounts and on this website. Books also have a lovely solid feel and smell that information on the internet can never provide, and most of them describe personal journeys through the author’s discovery and cultivation of bamboos with charm and infectious enthusiasm.
 Pocket Guide to Bamboos
Ted Jordan Meredith (2009). Timber Press
Updated descriptions from Bamboo for Gardens, covering more than 300 bamboos in the US
 Ornamental Bamboos
David Crompton (2006). Timber Press
Introduction to temperate bamboos with descriptions of species in the UK
 Hardy Bamboos: Taming the Dragon
Paul Whittaker (2005). Timber Press
Introduction to temperate bamboos with descriptions of species in the UK
 Bamboo for Gardens
Ted Jordan Meredith (2001). Timber Press
Comprehensive background with descriptions of most bamboos in the US
 The Gardener's Guide to Growing Temperate Bamboo
Michael Bell (2000). Timber Press
Introduction to cultivation with descriptions of bamboos in the UK
 Bamboo World
Victor Cusack & Deirdre Stewart (2000). Simon & Schuster (Australia)
Bamboos in Australia
 Bamboos
Christine Recht, Max F. Wetterwald (1992). Timber Press
Bamboos in Europe
 American Bamboos
Emmet J. Judziewicz, et al. (1999). Smithsonian Books, US
Technical account of bamboos native to the American Continents
 Bamboo World: Clumping Bamboos & How to Use Them
Victor Cusak & Deidre Stewart (1999). Kangaroo Press
Cultivation of tropical bamboos in Australia
 Bamboos of Bhutan
Chris Stapleton (1994). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Field guide to species in Bhutan
Updated and published online 2018
 Bamboos of Nepal
Chris Stapleton (1994). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Field guide to species in Nepal PDF
 The Bamboos of the World: Annotated Nomenclature and Literature
of the Species and the Higher and Lower Taxa
Dieter Ohrnberger (1999). Elsevier
A very thorough reference work, but only of names and synonymy (no descriptions)
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