You want to avoid propagating during their active growth seasons, especially shooting / leafing season. The bamboo grove needs as much energy and nutrients as possible to achieve this. Disturbing during this crucial period will result in lots of aborted shoots and culm die back. Most ideal time is t...

The people selling it (variegated nigra) online in the UK can't confirm for sure how true to form it is, other than "... it was from a trusted source... ". They do not have any photos of the mother plant showing the stable leaves on black canes. So it may be questionable??? Kyoshi (from Ba...

yeah if you tried to ID that plant, you will end up like that guy in the foreground.

This bamboo is in North America but may take some time before it gets introduced and propagated.