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Near Huntsville, Arkansas there is a large grove of bamboo growing
near a creek. Someone I know there got a start of it many years ago and in turn gave me a start of her bamboo. It is solid green however in bright sun mine has turned a buttery yellow. There is a white ring below each node on branches and main culms. Temperature of 3 above zero was the low this winter and minor leaf burn was the only damage even on such a young unestablished plant. Last year a single shoot came up and stayed barely above the ground for about a month and then suddenly took off growing, about a week later another one came up and both reached about five feet tall and 2/5 inch diamter. My yellow groove, 'giant black' and golden bamboos were all nearly done shooting when this one started. This could be related to the planting site, depth of the initial planting, etc. I am not sure. I did get a decent chunk of rhizome with the plant but it only had one six foot cane barely larger than the two that came up. This year again I see one single shoot, looking to be larger than any existing culms, waiting about three inches above the ground. I can take pictures later but really there is so little to work with that I am not sure how much benefit they will be in identifying it. My thought is possibly phyllostachys bissetii based upon the white ring, green canes that are buttery yellow in full hot sun, and also good cold hardiness. I was just wondering if these characteristics could be applied to any other bamboos that are at least dependably cold hardy (no leaf loss, no culm death) to zero, as I know that the grove on her property survived a night of 0 (f) with NO damage. |
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A picture really would help... It definitely sounds like a
Phyllostachys. There are several Ph. species with a prominant white ring below the nodes. Ph. nuda has the biggest and brightest of these rings, and is cold hardy to -20 F. However, I am not sure I have ever seen one turn "buttery yellow" in just one season of sun. |
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"HumanJHawkins" wrote:
A picture really would help... It definitely sounds like a Phyllostachys. There are several Ph. species with a prominant white ring below the nodes. Ph. nuda has the biggest and brightest of these rings, and is cold hardy to -20 F. However, I am not sure I have ever seen one turn "buttery yellow" in just one season of sun. http://vespertinal.com/mecha/bamboo.jpg http://vespertinal.com/mecha/bamboo2.jpg http://vespertinal.com/mecha/shoot.jpg |
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Cool... It definitely is a Phyllostachys, and it isn't a Ph. Nuda. If
the culms are particularly strong, it might be a Ph. Bambusoides. Or, Ph. Bambusoides 'Holochrysa'. Here is a pic of the latter of these two: http://www.mulu.co.uk/images/holochrysa_med.jpg Even though many pics you see of the non-holochysa variety of Ph. bambusoides show it to be green, it also turns fairly yellow under the right conditions. Take all of this with a grain of salt though... There are a lot of yellow forms of bamboo. I haven't seen a Ph. bambusoides shoot yet, so can't compare it to your pictures. Hopefully someone who has one shooting will chime in to confirm (or deny). |
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