How to Grow Bamboo Animal Crossing: New Horizons

How to Grow Bamboo in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is vital to know, as the season for bamboo is quickly coming to an end.

Bamboo is just one of the various flora you can find and bring home to your own island paradise. It can primarily be found on Mystery Islands, which can be traveled to using Nook Miles Tickets. While hopping from island to island, players may encounter a strange and completely flat island completely inhabited by bamboo "trees" and shoots. This place, affectionately nicknamed as "Bamboo Island" by players, is the original source from which the plant can be harvested.

Here's how to make it thrive on your island.

How to Grow Bamboo Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Like all major flora, bamboo can be dug up with your shovel and transplanted somewhere else. The larger plants need to be handled like trees—meaning you'll need to eat something before you can pocket them, roots and all

If you can't find fruit or would rather grow your own from scratch, you'll likely find bamboo shoots to be more appealing. These "seeds" grow around the adult plants and can be dug up like fossils to later be replanted like saplings. It should also be noted that bamboo shoots act like fruit. They are edible and can be used to "empower" the player.

Some players have reported that Daisy Mae may send you bamboo shoots if you buy enough turnips from her.

There is no limit to how many bamboo plants you can take home as long as you have room in your pockets. There is only one type of bamboo plant, so don't worry about looking for variations like you have probably noticed with fruit-bearing trees.

Additionally, bamboo plants can be replanted or grown anywhere on the island. The "sand-only" rule that applies to coconut palms does not apply here. All you need is an empty patch of grass and your shovel.

Bamboo plants will give off two types of bamboo when struck with an axe: default bamboo and special young spring bamboo. The latter is only available in the spring months in accordance with the spawning of seasonal bamboo recipes.