Crowds out native vegetation

Bambusa vulgaris is a perennial, woody, common bamboo. Vittata is a common variety that grows up to 12 metres tall. It has barcode-like striping in green. Grows in dense clumps. Widespread along river banks and on hillsides. There are some large clumps along Enoggera Creek notably behind the soccer ground at The Gap. If clumps are not removed they gradually get larger crowding out native vegetation. 

Canes. Photo: Robert Whyte

This stand of Common Bamboo Bambusa vulgaris ‘Vittata’ was photographed in July 2026 at Walton Bridge Reserve between Field 1 The Gap Football Club and Enoggera Creek. Its canopy was 50 metres long and 15 metres wide at that time. The original stand at the front of the photo was the full extent of the stand about 2006. Since then it has regrown upstream. Photo: Anne Jones