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| Company | Contact information | Description |
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| Bamboo Texas 18507 Becker Road Hockley, TX 77447 U.S.A. |
281-772-1875 Wendy Nelson www.bambootexas.com |
Family owned and operated 6-acre bamboo farm and nursery near Houston, TX growing high quality clumping and running bamboo species since 1995. Please contact us by phone or e-mail for an appointment or to place an order. |
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Description | Synonym | Sources | More Info |
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| Bambusa | Genus of tropical and subtropical clumping bamboos, usually giant, with numerous branches at a node, one or three much larger than the rest. New shoots appear in late summer or fall in their native areas. | ||||||||
| Bambusa chungii |
33.00 | 2.50 | 21 | 5 | Culms covered with white powder. Thin walled. Used in papermaking, weaving. | Sources |  MORE |
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| Bambusa chungii var. barbelatta |
22.00 | 1.50 | 21 | 5 | Grows to about 3/4 the size, with lighter ring of hair around new culm nodes and looser culm sheath blade. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa multiplex |
HEDGE BAMBOO | 25.00 | 1.50 | 18 | 5 | Each node bears a large number of branches down to the culm base, making a dense hedge. Hardiest of the Bambusa. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa multiplex 'Alphonse Karr' |
25.00 | 1.50 | 18 | 5 | Similar to the species, but the culms and branches are bright yellow with irregular longitudinal narrow dark green stripes. New shoots and culms are often reddish. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa multiplex 'Golden Goddess' |
10.00 | 0.50 | 18 | 5 | A dwarf form similar to 'Fernleaf' but with larger leaves. The culms tend to be yellowish. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa multiplex 'Goldstripe' |
25.00 | 1.50 | 18 | 5 | Mature green culms have a gold stripe that bleeds into the green. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa multiplex 'Midori Green' |
GREEN ALPHONSE | 15.00 | 1.50 | 18 | 5 | Similar to 'Alphonse Karr', but the culms and branches are light green with dark green stripes. | Bambusa multiplex 'Green Alphonse' | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa multiplex 'Riviereorum' |
CHINESE GODDESS | 6.00 | 0.30 | 18 | 5 | Has solid culms and tiny leaves; similar to 'Fernleaf' but smaller, more delicate looking. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa multiplex 'Silverstripe' |
25.00 | 1.50 | 18 | 5 | Many leaves have white stripes and some culms are also striped with white. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa textilis |
WEAVER'S BAMBOO | 40.00 | 2.00 | 18 | 5 | Tight clumps. An extremely handsome plant that arches gracefully. The thin-walled culms are used for weaving. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa textilis 'Dwarf' |
18.00 | 1.25 | 18 | 5 | Shorter, less erect. "This one is from a Bambusa textilis seedling that Roy Works sold to Rockledge Gardens in Florida and they have been selling it for a good number of years as a dwarf version of textilis and it has remained about half size of a regular textilis." | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa textilis 'Kanapaha' |
50.00 | 2.50 | 18 | 5 | Grows larger than normal B. textilis in Florida, with lower half of culms prominently blue & branchless. Very similar to ‘Mutabilis’. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa textilis 'Maculata' |
25.00 | 1.00 | 18 | 5 | Culms and base of new culm sheaths have purple streaks. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa textilis 'Mutabilis' |
40.00 | 2.30 | 18 | 5 | Persistent blue-white bloom and long internodes. Previously misidentified as B. mutabilis and as B. textilis var. fusca. | Bambusa mutabilis | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa textilis var. glabra |
30.00 | 1.00 | 18 | 5 | Slender, as var. gracilis, but with glabrous culms and culm sheaths. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa textilis var. gracilis |
30.00 | 1.30 | 18 | 5 | Culm more slender than the typical B. textilis, nodding top, graceful foliage. | Sources | MORE |
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| Shibataea | A genus with very dense, short, zig-zagged angular culms with 3-5 branches per node, often clipped into balls. | ||||||||
| Shibataea kumasaca |
7.00 | 0.30 | -5 | 3 | Short, broad leaves on slender, nearly solid culms with prominent nodes and short slightly zigzag internodes. Prefers acid soil, shows extensive leaf burn if in alkaline environment. | Sources | MORE |
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| Sinobambusa | Running bamboos similar to Semiarundinaria except that the culm leaves promptly fall off. | ||||||||
| Sinobambusa tootsik 'Albostriata' |
30.00 | 1.50 | 10 | 4 | Similar to the type, but with yellowish white striped leaves. | Sources | MORE |
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