Fargesia murielae flowering

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Fargesia murielae flowering

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I was looking over my plants yesterday for shoots, winter damage, and overall health when I discovered my Fargesia murielae had numerous flowers on it. I bought the plant about 3and a half years ago from Lowes. I am 99 % sure that it was a TC plant as it had no larger shoots and all of the growth was very thin. When I planted it had gotten a large amount of new shoots but relatively no upsizing like I usually get with plants
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I am just wondering if my plant is a fluke or if anyone else has seen this flowering currently. From what I have read the plant last had a flowering in the mid to late 90' s so most if not all plants out there should be new generation and should not flower again for many years. I guess at this point I am just hoping to get some viable seeds to grow out.
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Yes it started flowering a bit in 1998 here and peaked in 1999 with a few seeds in the next year too. We grew seeds from Susanne in Mass. and the SRGC & AGS in Great Britain a few years before that. Said to have flowered in the 70's in Denmark but that sounds out of whack.

Hope you have a chance to grow some seeds!

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I recently noticed that mine is flowering this year. I purchased the plant from Bamboo Headquarters about 2008. I will get some photos soon.

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