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I'm looking for a source of Bambusa balcooa; I've e-mailed
some businesses on the American Bamboo Society source list, and I'm awaiting answers, but in the past I've had no luck with any of the places ABS lists as sometimes having it. I understand that it's a widespread pest in parts of Australia, so perhaps people are reluctant to offer it. According to the ABS species list (and various books), Dendrocalamus asper can take 23 degrees F without damage to its culms. However, I understand that this figure is from experts in India; the D. asper I've obtained has been a Thai or an Indonesian clone, and those seem to tolerate little if any frost: I spend up to $100/plant and always lose it. Is there a hardier Indian cultivar that actually can stand 23 F? Or are they all essentially the same plant, and my cultural practices simply lousy? (Or is that temperature for a mature clump, with the cutting-grown plants I buy being more frost-tender?) Maybe I should just be grateful that my seedling moso is growing steadily bigger, and the hell with tender-ish clumpers. Mark. Gooley, in zone 8b in north Florida |
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