Lucky Bamboo: Not a Bamboo
Lucky bamboo is not a true bamboo. It is a Dracaena, which is in the lily family. We do not sell this product. Often we receive calls and e-mails from people asking why their bamboo has turned yellow or is dead. The answer is they have lucky bamboo. True bamboo is much more hardy than this Dracaena. If you do have lucky bamboo and it is turning yellow please contact the seller.
The table below shows Lucky Bamboo and other plants that are commonly mistaken for true bamboo.
| Common name, Genus name |
Description | Photo |
|---|---|---|
| Lucky/Friendship Bamboo, Dracaena sanderana | Completely green, some have curves and spirals, usually grown from stalks in water or pebbles with water. Often turns yellow and dies when kept under these conditions.(WE DO NOT SELL THIS PRODUCT - CLICK FOR MORE INFO) |  |
| Giant Reed, Arundo donax | Large weed, invasive. Abundant in Southern California, Texas, Arizona. Large leaves growing on the bamboo like culms. Grows in riverbeds, canyons and cliffsides where water is abundant.(WE DO NOT SELL THIS PRODUCT - CLICK FOR MORE INFO) |  |
| Bamboo Palm, Chamaedorea seifritzii | Leaves like a palm, stalks like a bamboo. Indoor plant.(CLICK FOR PRICE AND AVAILABILITY) |  |
| Heavenly Bamboo, Nandina domestica | Belongs to the barberry family but is reminiscent of bamboo in its lightly branched, cane-like stems and delicate, fine-textured foliage. (CLICK FOR PRICE AND AVAILABILITY) |  |
| Horsetail, Equisetum hyemale | Bog plant, numerous sectioned stalks. Invasive.(CLICK FOR PRICE AND AVAILABILITY) |  |