Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_otatea_acuminata
Mexican Weeping Bamboo
Otatea acuminata
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About Mexican Weeping Bamboo
Mexican Weeping Bamboo (Otatea acuminata) is a post-contact introduced woody bamboo documented on Kauaʻi through cultivation records. Kew accepts Otatea acuminata as a Mexican bamboo and records it primarily in the wet tropical biome. The source catalog used the name Otatea aztecorum; that name and the infraspecific horticultural combination are retained as aliases. On Kauaʻi, the evidence establishes only a cultivated NTBG living-collection occurrence in 2018.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Otatea acuminata
- Common names
- Mexican Weeping Bamboo
- Other names
- Otatea acuminata · Mexican Weeping Bamboo · Otatea aztecorum · Otatea acuminata subsp. aztecorum
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-05
- Evidence limits
- Current extent is unassessed; public locality is island level only.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Arborescent woody grass (clumping bamboo)
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Mexican Weeping Bamboo (Otatea acuminata) is a post-contact introduced woody bamboo documented on Kauaʻi through cultivation records. Kew accepts Otatea acuminata as a Mexican bamboo and records it primarily in the wet tropical biome. The source catalog used the name Otatea aztecorum; that name and the infraspecific horticultural combination are retained as aliases. On Kauaʻi, the evidence establishes only a cultivated NTBG living-collection occurrence in 2018.