Re: Latest Phyllostachys to shoot?
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 3:45 pm
needmore wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 9:05 pm Jos VDP from whom I picked up the Virella thought that it was closely aligned with Atrovaginata and mine was not at all, very close to Rubro so I've always suspected a mixup on my part or someone else's. There were no other plants in that import trip of mine that seemed mixed up so I suspect if it happened it did so upstream from me and I have no guess what it might be.
As you can see on my website if you can currently find the Rubro, my Rubro shoots were showing the really colorful culm leaves and the Virella never did though that might be maturity and perhaps yours will? I might be mistaken but I do not think that Rubro is common at all in Europe so it seems unlikely to be that but...
I have Phyllostachys virella from Jos too (2005). This plant is very close too P. rubromarginata. Here it is the last bamboo to shoot every year. It is the most clumping Phyllostachys in my collection. Has around 6 meters now. Hardines is better then rubromarginata on old stems, young stems are often damaged during the winter.
