Lauderhill, FL Invasive Plant Rules: Bamboo Restrictions (2026)

Section 1.3.3(C) of the landscape installation and maintenance schedule lists trees that are specifically prohibited from being planted and will not count for having met any planting requirements: black olive (Bucida buceras), ficus (Ficus benjamina), schefflera (Schefflera actinophylla), Norfolk Island pine, and tree bamboo (Bambosa vulgaris). The prohibition sits inside the City's broader tree and palm planting standards, which otherwise set minimum crown spread, height, caliper and spacing requirements for any tree used to satisfy a site plan's landscaping obligation. Because tree bamboo is named outright rather than folded only into the separate invasive exotic species list in Section 1.3.3(I), which incorporates the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council's Category I and II list by reference, a property owner or landscaper cannot substitute it even informally: it simply does not count, and installing it does not satisfy any landscaping condition of approval, buffer requirement or tree canopy standard elsewhere in Schedule J.

A site plan that relies on tree bamboo to meet its planting quota will fail review by the Planning and Zoning Department regardless of how mature or well-maintained the plant is, because the code treats it as though it were never planted at all for compliance purposes.