The Florida Caribbean Chapter of the American Bamboo Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to gaining knowledge and educating the public on bamboos, with emphasis on research and preservation and propagation of endangered species.

The Society sponsors lectures, conferences, tours, and plant sales in South & Central Florida. There are at least four meetings & newsletters per year. The meetings are usually on Saturdays in September, November, February, and April. We sponsor an annual Show, Sale, and Auction at Fairchild Tropical Gardens/Miami, each year in June. The chapter maintains a USDA bamboo quarantine station.

There are at least four workdays per year maintaining bamboo gardens at the Florida State Agricultural Extension Office in Homestead, at Constitution Park/Deerfield Beach, Brevard County Extension Office and at Fairchild Tropical Garden.

This website is being maintained to emphasize tropical, clumping bamboo species that thrive in Florida (zones 9-11). Our Species Table is derived from the ABS source list but lists no temperate, running bamboo. For a full species listing and for more information on the American Bamboo Society and other chapters, please visit the main ABS website.

If you have any comments, questions, or information, please e-mail me. Or see our Bamboo Q & A page for questions about bamboo in specific areas of Florida.

Robert Saporito, President FCC/ABS