These shoots are coming up in amongst a lot of P. Vivax......I can't figure out what it is.......any ideas?

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looks like P. decora. are you sure its vivax that they are shooting from? vivax has black splotches on the culm sheaths.

Gene

Well I thought I was sure but now I have my doubts.......This patch of bamboo has always produced VIVAX like this:

VIVAX......for 8 years.....VIVAX.......and now these shoots are coming up along with the vivax and its got me wondering what they are.

I guess a different species could've gotten mixed in with the vivax rhizomes I planted 8 years ago but this is the first time I've seen shoots that look like this.....weird...

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WOW... those photos do look like vivax..... decora stays smaller than vivax, vivax has hairs on the branchs at the base of the leaves.... I would check out some of the smaller culms, I would bet that you have decora, or whatever it is, mixed in with the vivax. Very pretty shoots.

Gene

From the gallery:

Phyllostachys mannii 'Decora'

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Yup....That looks like it.....Not sure how it got there or why it took so long for me to notice it.....but that's definetly some Beautiful Bamboo.....

Thanks for all your help!!

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Strikes me as one of the forms of Aureosulcata.

EDIT: I do not think it is Mannii Decora, although the coloration is similar some of the intense color banding at the leaf margins is absent. Phy. humilis has similar coloration but I don't think its that either - way too big. Good sized Aureosulcata shoots look just like that....

Scroll down a bit

http://needmorebamboo.com/aureosulcatapics.html

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WOW, You may be on to something here.....The PICS of the P. Aureosulcata look a lot closer to a match......so now I should be looking for crookstem culms.....that'll be the deciding factor I guess.

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Looks like you could be right, Brad. The over all coloring is lighter and more even than the decora. looks like the sheath blades match too, but I cant tell what the sheath blades look like in the pic Roy linked, and its nearly 12:30am, and Lord KNOWS I need my beauty sleep, so I will wait until later to satisfy my curiosity and scroll through the numerous images!


one Q- do all the aureasulcata forms have the same culm texture... the spectabalis is the only one I have heard that refered to, I just recently got a nice size aureocalis, and have not "felt it up" yet, and my harbin, harbin inversa, alata are all to small for me to tell. By going out and feeling the smaller culms in the grove, that could point out which are small vivax, which are aureasulcata.

Yep, Bama, you are going to have to explain to all and sundry what you are out amongst the bamboo doing....."its OK folks, Im just out here stroking my culms......"

on second thought, better do it when no one else is around......

LOL.......Yeah, My wife is suspect because I spend so much time in the bamboo......I finally set up a chair under some nice shade so she can come visit me....lol.....she wouldn't get to see me much if she didn't come down to the bamboo.....
Yall know how it is, Its SPRING TIME and all of our spare time is spent looking for NEW SHOOTS!!!!!....lol....

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I get weird looks from my wife all the time.... today I came into the house absolutely exstatic... I found two shoots from my quadrangularis that I did not see somehow- they are almost a foot tall! blew my mind, as that plant was almost completely wiped out last fall by some critter underground, and I just recently re-planted it after digging a hole and lineing with wire....

only another bamboo nut understands!