I picked up 3 pots of what looks like a dwarf, 6-12 inch, variegated bamboo at a nursery that was going out of business a couple of weeks ago. The nursery manager divided it up into four pots two years ago. The manager had no idea as to the type of bamboo it is and said she was rather baffled by it because for two years she kept waiting for it to grow and get tall.

Anyone have any ideas?




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jT

It looks to me like Sasella masamuneana albostriata. The only other thing I can think of is a very dwarfed H. tranquillans shiroshima. But it's leaves tend to be a tad wider. Hey, thanks again for the pots while in GA.
Chris

What up Chris? No problem with the pots. There was no way they would have fit in the truck on the trip home with all the bamboo we had anyway.
In the spring were bringing a trailer.

I was thinking it might be Sasella masamuneana albostriata as well. I saw that Sasella masamuneana albostriata has the potential to get to 6 feet so I kind of nixxed that as a possibility. Although, I remember the planting of masamuneana in Byron was not more than a foot tall.

As I mentioned the nursery manager has had it in the pots for a little over two years and according to her it has not done anything except put up a few culms the same height as the rest. I plan on planting a couple of the plants in the ground in the next couple of weeks and I will see what happens in the spring.

What ever it is, it was a good deal. I got all the three pots for $4.

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jT

Nice score. Some of those heights seem a bit uncommon. And certain planting situations may allow such growth. My 10 yr old 'grove' of S.palmata hasn't broken barely 4',but is very spread out. But as you saw in GA it can get taller. My experience with S.m.albostriata is the same as in GA.
Chris

Hi, I agree with the above comments regarding species and my experience with these in pots certainly bears close relation to yours. I've kept this boo a couple of years and it does not reach over a couple of feet tall. But it probably doesn't help in that I give it a haircut in early spring which encourages the lovely variegation to really show.
Regards

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Looks just like my Sasella masamuneana albostriata mine is just starting to get going. It hasn't even broken the 6 inch tall mark yet. Mine has taken a long time because I was inexperienced with bamboo when I took it as a single unemerged shoot cutting growing between the soil and the pot of a one gallon pot. The other three I did that day failed. Any how I am hoping that it really takes off next year.

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Nate Abbott

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Nate Abbott

Thanks for the picture Nate. I am heavily leaning to your and Chris's assessment that it looks like masamuneana albiostrata.

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jT