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Fruit and Spice Park in Homestead, FL grows at least 70 species of tropical bamboo.

American Bamboo Society
Founded in 1979, has 1,400 members worldwide.

Florida/Caribbean Chapter of the American Bamboo Society  
Comprehensive information on desirable clumping species of bamboo for planting in Central Florida and South Florida includes a species list and images. President Robert Saporito asys, "There are more than 1500 different species of bamboo. The tropical, clumping bamboo species make up at least half of the 1500 species. In South Florida, tropical clumping bamboos are grown. Many of the sub-tropical clumping bamboos can be grown throughout the State of Florida."

Bamboo
Fact Sheet from TAMU tells how to eradicate stands of running bamboo..

Bamboo Web
Hawaiian information site.

Bambusa oldhami
Giant Bamboo Fact sheet from Arizona AgInfo.

The International Network for Bamboo & Rattan
INBAR is "an intergovernmental organization dedicated to improving the social, economic, and environmental benefits of bamboo and rattan."

Phyllostachys aurea
Golden Bamboo Fact sheet from Arizona AgInfo.

Tropical Bamboo Nursery & Gardens has a reference collection of more than 140 different tropical bamboo species. These are in-ground specimens that are often used as a resource by taxonomists, students, and hobbyists. The nursery is a commercial operation but the gardens are open to the public.