Bamboo rhizomes will indeed pierce a pond liner if given the chance to do so.

Greetings, it's hard for me to say what you have, I think it most likely that it is Phy edulis, but in either case I think that the hardiness is quite similar between your 2 possible species based on my experience growing them both in USDA zone 5b/6a - most winters both would die fully back at my pl...

But none of them can be planted in wet soils, they can be planted near wet soils and they might spread into them, but directly plant rhizomes in wet soils and I would expect them all to flunk...

Tony, nice to hear from you! Although growing bamboo in the UK looks challenging, you can grow a wide range of species and forms so I look forward to any pictures you may post. Too bad that the forum at this point is all but dead, once upon a time it was quite vibrant but now hardly anyone remains s...

Here I can't dig any holes as I'm essentially on solid lava, so I have to plant in mounds. After reading about it, I filed away that I should be careful when I add more to the mounds, add to the diameter not the height so much, being careful not to just pile it up on the existing mound or what your ...

Right, I can't see from the photo but suggesting that he check for that, irrelevant if both have them though!

Wouldn't Moso have large oral setae on young plants? Dunno, maybe Beijing does as well.

It should do well in zone 6a, in my z6a it really sized up quite nicely
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I left my Indiana place in summer 2015 and my Beijing had been flowering then, I was considering it to be Li Yu Gan though and not Beijing but maybe both the same plant.

I don't miss that cycle, hope you get some decent culms this year.

Obviously I can't say what that is but juvy Moso shoots might not be hairy, I grew some from seedlings and they were not hairy for a couple years amd lots of them started out with narrow leaves that had white stripes, the stripes always faded away.

New shoot photos, nice dark maroon ring on this batch.

Crazy. Hope they take off and you have interesting new variants!

My Hitam looks about like yours except for the big shoot so far.

One of my unknown types is pushing 3' shoots at about 18 months, I think it might be D brandseii instead of G atter, first photo is shortly after buying it.