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Bamboo Botanicals 1319 Yarmouth Street Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 5M7 Canada |
(604) 600-3395 Matt Lang www.bamboobotanicals.ca |
Bamboo Botanicals - Bamboo Garden & Nursery dedicated to the appreciation, education and promotion of bamboo. Many species of rare and ornamental bamboo from around the world. By appointment only. |
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Borinda | Clump-forming mountain bamboos from Bhutan, Tibet, Yunnan, & Sichuan, with different flowers to Fargesia and shorter rhizomes than Yushania. Culms usually blue at first, usually with very fine grooves.. | ||||||||
Borinda albocerea |
20.00 | 1.00 | 15 | 3 | 4 clones introduced, Yunnan 1/95; 2/95; 3a/95; 3b/95. | Sources | MORE |
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Borinda fungosa 'White Cloud' |
15.00 | 1.00 | 20 | U | A little smaller and more tender than the species. The leaves have an akebono look with a little white striping | Sources | MORE |
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Borinda papyrifera |
25.00 | 2.00 | 15 | 3 | New culms are powdery blue-white aging to yellow, with prominent fine vertical grooves. | Sources | MORE |
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Borinda yulongshanensis |
16.00 | 0.75 | 0 | 3 | Sources | MORE |
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Chusquea | A genus of C & S American bamboos that contains 134 described species, and possibly another 70 yet to be described. They are mostly clumping mountain bamboos, but some are runners. The solid culms usually bear one dominant branch and numerous branchlets. | ||||||||
Chusquea andina 'Blue Andes' |
12.00 | 1.00 | 0 | 5 | Small spiky blue leaves are unusual in bamboo. This species from the treeline of the Chilean Andes may be one of the hardiest of South American Bamboos. | Sources | MORE |
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Chusquea culeou |
15.00 | 1.00 | 0 | 5 | Hardy clumper, from southern Chile, long cultivated in Europe. Has many branches per node, all equal size. Many different clones available of varying hardiness and form. | Sources | MORE |
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Chusquea culeou 'Caņa Prieta' |
15.00 | 1.00 | 0 | 5 | Darker culms, becoming red-brown or nearly black. Previously misidentified as C. nigricans. | Chusquea nigricans | Sources | MORE |
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Chusquea culeou 'Hillier's Form' |
9.00 | 0.80 | 5 | 4 | Stubby branches and compact leaves are combine with smaller stature. Considered to be a seedling variation of C. culeou. | Sources | MORE |
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Fargesia | Clumping bamboos from the alpine conifer forests of west and southwest China. Medium to small and all very cold hardy, but not tolerant of very high summer temperatures. Flowers like toothbrushes. Culms smooth. | ||||||||
Fargesia nitida 'Jiuzhaigou 01' |
12.00 | 0.50 | -15 | 2 | New introduction. A clone from Jiuzhaigou Reserve with Red Culms. | Sources | MORE |
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Fargesia nitida 'Jiuzhaigou 10' |
12.00 | 0.50 | -15 | 2 | New introduction. This interesting but rare form of Jiuzhaigou has canes that age to a rich yellow/gold color. It appears to grow as tall, if not a little taller than Jiuzhaigou I (11 feet on average). | Sources | MORE |
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Fargesia nitida 'Jiuzhaigou 4' |
8.00 | 0.50 | -15 | 2 | New introduction. The darkest colored form of 'Jiuzhaigou' collected from Jiuzhaigou Park in northern Sichuan China by R. Willumeit. Shorter than other Jiuzhaigou forms. | Sources | MORE |
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Fargesia nitida 'Jiuzhaigou' |
12.00 | 0.50 | -15 | 2 | New introductions. Several new seedling clones from Jiuzhaigou Reserve. | Sources | MORE |
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Fargesia robusta |
16.00 | 1.00 | 0 | 4 | From Sichuan Province, China, at elevations over 8,000 feet.Early shoots. | Sources | MORE |
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Fargesia robusta 'Campbell' |
12.00 | U | 0 | U | Upright form with small leaves | Sources | MORE |
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Fargesia robusta 'Wolong' |
17.00 | 1.00 | 0 | 4 | Collected in Wolong, Sichuan in 1996. More vigorous, with larger leaves. Bamboo 23: 16. 2002. | Sources | MORE |
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Fargesia sp. 'Scabrida' |
U | U | -5 | 4 | From Pingwu, Sichuan. Orange sheaths as F. dracocephala 'Rufa' but with more culm wax. Not F. scabrida. | Sources | MORE |
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Phyllostachys | Medium to giant runners which have a distinct groove above pairs of unequal branches at mid-culm nodes. They shoot in spring. | ||||||||
Phyllostachys aurea 'Albovariegata' |
VARIEGATED GOLDEN BAMBOO | 27.00 | 1.80 | 5 | 5 | Same, except that the leaves are smaller, striped with white. Many plants flowered recently; some have survived but nearly all reverted to normal form. | Sources | MORE |
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Phyllostachys aurea 'Dr Don' |
27.00 | 1.80 | 10 | 5 | Glaucous blue culms with denser wax than usual | Sources | MORE |
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Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'Spectabilis' |
Green groove | 26.00 | 1.50 | -5 | 5 | The culms are yellow with a green groove, just opposite of the typical form. Smaller in hottest areas. | Sources | MORE |
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Phyllostachys bambusoides |
GIANT JAPANESE TIMBER, MADAKE | 72.00 | 6.00 | 5 | 5 | The most utilized bamboo in Japan where it is valued for its large straight thick-walled culms. Flowered extensively in the 1970s and many plants died. Most plants have regained their vegetative vigor. | Sources | MORE |
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Phyllostachys bambusoides 'Allgold' |
35.00 | 2.00 | 5 | 5 | The culms are entirely golden yellow except for an occasional thin green stripe. | Sources | MORE |
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Phyllostachys bambusoides 'Richard Haubrich' |
35.00 | 2.00 | 5 | 5 | Sport from base of 'Castillonis' with dramatic green stripes on white leaves, slow grower. Bamboo 23: 7. 2002 | Sources | MORE |
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Phyllostachys edulis |
MOSO | 75.00 | 7.00 | 5 | 5 | Largest of the hardy bamboos. Young culms are covered with a velvety coat of soft hairs. The most used bamboo in China, used for food , timber, paper, plywood, and flooring. | Phyllostachys heterocycla pubescens | Sources | MORE |
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Phyllostachys nigra |
Black bamboo | 30.00 | 2.00 | 5 | 5 | Culms turn jet black after the first 6 months to one year. Popular because of its graceful habit and the sharp accent of its culm color. Said to grow larger in northern climates. It is not clear whether there is significant difference between some of the cultivars | Sources | MORE |
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Phyllostachys vivax |
Vivax | 70.00 | 5.00 | 5 | 5 | Resembles P. bambusoides except that the culms have thinner walls and a white powdery band beneath each node at sheath-fall. Gray-green when mature. | Sources | MORE |
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Phyllostachys vivax 'Aureocaulis' |
70.00 | 5.00 | 5 | 5 | The culms turn yellow with a few narrow green stripes. | Sources | MORE |
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Phyllostachys vivax 'Huangwenzhu Inversa' |
70.00 | 5.00 | 0 | 5 | The culms are yellow with a green groove. | Sources | MORE |
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Phyllostachys vivax 'Huangwenzhu' |
70.00 | 5.00 | 0 | 5 | Internodes green with yellow groove. From Henon. More frost resistant than the type. | Sources | MORE |
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Pleioblastus | Genus of small and medium size running bamboos with persistent culm leaves. Most are native to Japan, were formerly classified in Arundinaria. | ||||||||
Pleioblastus viridistriatus 'Chrysophyllus' |
3.00 | 0.30 | 0 | 2 | Same as Pl. viridistriatus, except that the leaves are yellow with only very faint green stripes. | Sources | MORE |
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Thamnocalamus | Clumping bamboos from the mountains of eastern Asia and Africa, similar to Fargesia. | ||||||||
Thamnocalamus crassinodus 'Kew Beauty' |
15.00 | 0.75 | 15 | 3 | very small leaves on blue-grey canes which become red or brown with age. | Sources | MORE |
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