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Care asked in Home & GardenGarden & Landscape · 1 decade ago

Is it normal for a lucky bamboo plant to live 5 years?

I have had my bamboo plant at least five years I have read online they are only suppose to live a few months. Is my lucky bamboo plant not a lucky bamboo plant at all or do I just have the right environment (I live in South Carolina so it is humid and hot here)

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  • 1 decade ago
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    "Lucky bamboo" isn't actually bamboo, its a member of the Dracaena family. I've had several for more than 7 years, and they're still going strong. Just keep doing what you're doing and it'll last.

  • Lene O
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Bamboo is a tough plant, but if it has the totally wrong environment, any plant will fade away.

    It sounds as if everything is going your way. Since there are many species of bamboo, it seems the one you have matches your environment.

    ps, here in the NE, several neighbors have bamboo that have lived through many winters and snow- including last year's terrible deep blizzards. And yet some people can't grow it indoors. Weird huh?

  • sinkey
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

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