Rare species in the US

[needmore]

Here are some photos of hard to find bamboo in the US from my import trip, some I just got back after 4.5 years of waiting and those were stressed & diseased in the quarantine house. I've been babying them for a few weeks and they are looking better. Sorry, not much to the photos but here they are:

Phyllostachys glabrata




Phyllostachys pinyanensis



Phyllostachys lofushanensis doing a good impression of a bird-of-paradise


Phyllostachys fimbriligula


Pleioblastus maculatus


Phyllostachys rutila


Phyllostachys aurita


One I got back earlier and planted out in March - 2 shots of Phyllostachys Shanghai 3


S3


From someone else's import trip - Indocalamus victorialis, now 2 winters in-ground here


Phyllostachys acuta




If anyone familiar with these species sees something that looks off, please let me know, I believe these are more common in Europe. I also have Phy hispida, Phy virella, and Phy varioauriculata in ground.

[ShmuBamboo]

I cannot say that I notice anything weird, but I was going to ask you what particular features do these Phyllostachys have? I have seen a few of them around here in some private collections, but they seem to all be AGP; another green Phyllostachys. We were stumped trying to ID some of John's Phyllostachys boos at McKenzie Valley Bamboo last year.

[Steve in France]

Congratulations on getting all those new plants and I'm sure in the future many will be prized plants to US Bamboo growers. Sourcing and collecting new plants has a long and honored history . Men of true passion and worth understand the quest and respect the endeavor .
Best wishes to you
Steve

[philippe smets]

Congratulations on getting all those new plants and I'm sure in the future many will be prized plants to US Bamboo growers. Sourcing and collecting new plants has a long and honored history . Men of true passion and worth understand the quest and respect the endeavor .
Best wishes to you
Steve

+1,

congratulations needmore

ph

[bigone5500]

Gratz! I especially like the shanghai.

[Mike McG]

Here are some photos of hard to find bamboo in the US from my import trip, some I just got back after 4.5 years of waiting and those were stressed & diseased in the quarantine house....

Brad

Would you care to elaborate on the "diseased" part? Were these plants that were diseased when shipped and kept in quarantine until cured, plants that picked up a disease in quarantine and released in that state, or plants that were diseased with some thing already prevalent in the US and not of concern to the authorities?

Although I am sure 4.5 years was a long time for you, it seems like only the other day that you were first posting about doing this. Anyway hopefully these new imports will be successful for you after all the effort and money you have put into them. It seems as if the US is making it more difficult to legally import bamboo and that will just encourage more smuggling. Congratulations on adding to the bamboo available to northern growers.

Mike near Brenham TX

[needmore]

Mike, these were kept in a certified quarantine house and periodically inspected by the USDA for the required 1-year period, eventually cleared for release. Because of my arrangement with the qhouse folks, I was not to get a plant until they had grown enough to be divided, so the plants were moved to one of their 'generic' greenhouses with lots of other plants. In there at some point they were impacted by either a native pest or something, I'm not really sure which, nothing new though, but in my experience bamboos kept indoors and underwatered start looking really funky from who knows what. I don't really think they were dis-eased the grower suggested that I blast them with some chemicals but I never do that so now they look fine with just TLC. They were rootbound and underwatered so weakened and vulnerable to pests and dis-ease.

[ocimum_nate]

Indocalamus victorialis looks like a really nice plant.

[Mark_NoVA]

Wow, 4.5 years, congratulations! That is great you were able to nurse them back to health. Hope some of them turn out to be really special.

[rhum23]

shangai 3 is a beautifull bamboo, and very "dynamic" (similar as vivax for me)
last year culm 0,8 mm, an 1,5m this year 2cm and more than 3m.

shoots of this year


photo from kimmei