I hope all goes well withs brad's importing trip and this bamboo makes it to the USA, it's reputation as the biggest cold hardy bamboo in Europe has already been made ,so there's no reason it can't do the same over there. Plants were few and far between a few years back, once 'news' got round and the photos seen of Jos's plant loads of nurseries imported plants which were fairly quickly snapped up.
Out of all the Phyllostachys planted here, none have shown as much growth in one year as the #3 , planted two years ago this tripled in height and culm size this . It's now around 8 foot tall and 3/4 inch, bearing in mind the UK climate where Ph. do not do well this is good progress.
The debate on what it is though is still going on, Jos's thoughts were of a dulcis clone, but it dos'nt match any of the botanical descriptions.
In the spring I took some pic's of the new shoots( no laughing at the size, it's the grey old UK fault )
Phyllostachys dulcis( thought young it matches, including stripes on culms and leaves.
Ph. shanghai
Anyone have any thoughts on this bamboo.
Mark.
What is Jos's Ph. shanghai 3
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What is Jos's Ph. shanghai 3
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Yes, it doesn't quite look like Dulcis shoots to me. I do not have Praecox because I suspect that it is not very hardy so I don't know what those shoots look like.
I can't quite recall what my Shanghai 1 shoots look like, but these photos seem to show characteristics of a combination of different species that I have, but no single species. Kind of a Viridis/Aurea/Mannii Decora mix!
I can't quite recall what my Shanghai 1 shoots look like, but these photos seem to show characteristics of a combination of different species that I have, but no single species. Kind of a Viridis/Aurea/Mannii Decora mix!
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