The difference between lotus bamboo and Guanyin bamboo

1. Different families

Lotus bamboo and Guanyin bamboo are not the same plant, but they look quite similar. It is a plant of the Liliaceae family and the Dracaena genus. It is quite common in life and can be grown in water or in soil.

Guanyin bamboo is a plant belonging to the Arecaceae family and the genus Palmum. It has many names, and is also called tendon bamboo, palm bamboo, dwarf palm bamboo, etc.

2. Different plant types

The height of the lotus bamboo plant is about 2 meters, and it is a small evergreen tree. This plant is slightly shorter in height, but is overall more slender, with multiple branches on the upright part of the stem.

The height of Guanyin bamboo is relatively high, reaching about 3 meters, and the diameter is about 0.5-1 cm. If you put two of them together, you can easily distinguish them by the difference in height.

3. Different leaves

The leaves of lotus bamboo are relatively long and wide, larger than the latter's leaves, about 13-23 cm long and about 1.8-3.2 cm wide.

The leaves of Guanyin bamboo are smaller, about 3.5-6.5 cm in length and about 0.4-0.7 cm in width, and there are dense yellow-brown spines on the back of the leaves.