Identify this tree

I dont think its a tree, looks like some type of bamboo?

I want to know more about this plant

Seems much more fragile than any bamboo I am familiar with

Hi Jason. Where are you located? That looks to me like Arundo donax, the giant cane native to the US. Not really a bamboo but often gets mistaken for one. Tough to get rid of if you want to plant something else there, but it is a real survivor and a stellar carbon crop.

Phil Stevens wrote:Hi Jason. Where are you located? That looks to me like Arundo donax, the giant cane native to the US. Not really a bamboo but often gets mistaken for one. Tough to get rid of if you want to plant something else there, but it is a real survivor and a stellar carbon crop.

I guess I need to figure out how to list my location. My property is in Dunnellon Fl 34431

Jason Walter wrote:
I guess I need to figure out how to list my location.

Go into "My Profile" from the forum menu at the top of this page and enter this in "General Information about Myself" under location :>)

Florida has heaps of the stuff. If you read early written accounts of the South before colonists settled the landscape, you will come across references to "canebrakes." These were thick stands of A. donax, typically in river bottoms and marshlands. Good places for an ambush....

This plant figures in my own early story: My parents bought a house a few months before I was born. Apparently the back yard was wall to wall with this stuff, but they wanted a lawn. So they dug it all out by hand, in the heat of summer, in Tucson(!). My mom was plugging the new lawn when she went into labour. I like to think that I gave her a break from all that yardwork.