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Rockclimber  Send Rockclimber a private message!




Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 - 01:41 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I have two plants in the garden (look like bamboo) but have no idea which variety they are. Any help in identifying appreciated.

http://www.asjlawson.btinternet.co.uk/Garden/PlantR117.jpg

http://www.asjlawson.btinternet.co.uk/Garden/PlantR119.jpg

Thanks

Rockclimber - Aberdeenshire, Zone "8"
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 09:44 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hi, its tough to ID Boo... atleast for us Novice types. If possible... take a nice up close pic of a new culm just as it emerges... the top 2 inches of a new growth will make the IDing easier. Bamboo Veterans may be able to ID from the existing pics.
CJ

Imcjfrom_ncusa - North Carolina, Zone "7"
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 11:42 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

119 is pseudosasa japonica.

Oosterholt - Groningen, Zone "7"
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 11:49 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hmmm doesnt look like my Aarow Boo.
CJ

Imcjfrom_ncusa - North Carolina, Zone "7"
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Posted on Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 06:31 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I agree - it can be tough to ID bamboo species, even with good pictures. One would need to look at characteristics of growth - is it a running or clumping bamboo, what's the size of the culms (height and diameter), the color of the culms, the description of the sheaths, and, esecially, the description of the young shoots. Your bamboos look quite young, which makes it even more difficult, as the characteristics listed above can be quite different between a young clump and a mature clump of the same species. There is a good website by Chris Stapleton that does a snapshot of helping at least pinpoint the genus it might belong to. (http://www.bamboo-identification.co.uk/html/common_genera.html)

Your second bamboo does look like Pseudosa japonica.

Cactus_joe - British Columbia, Zone "8a"

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