Harbin Inversa

Steve in France · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 10:24 pm

Hi all, I was just looking at the Harbin Inversa from Brad, many Thanks again Brad. It's shooting and leafing out now, 16 shoots I think. Anyway I was not aware it has varigated blades so that was a nice surprise, plus the culms are getting that great red colour that many aureosulcata get. Looking forward to getting this Bamboo in the ground and seeing it get big.

Alan_L · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 10:36 pm

Steve in France wrote:

plus the culms are getting that great red colour that many aureosulcata get.

That's really red! Which aureosulcatas get that red, and under what conditions? My 'Spectabilis' and 'aureocaulis' are slightly tinted red, but nothing like that!

Steve in France · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 11:10 pm

Hi Alan , my Spectabilis in France got that red but it was a young plant and exposed to a lot of Sun. This Harbin Inversa is the same , lots of Sun and they get very very red. My aureosulcata aureocaulis in France also got very red but not where shaded by a fence , so only on the Sunny side of the Street

. The red then turns to a deeper yellow than culms that do not go red.
All the Best
Steve

Alan_L · **Posted:** Sat May 16, 2009 12:59 am

Steve - my aureocaulis is in full sun. We'll see what happens, but just a hint of red so far.

ShmuBamboo · **Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 8:05 am

My Phy. aureo. Harbin Inversas here have fairly red/bronze culms. I have two clones from two different sources. Some of the leaves are striped, but none have the wide stripes like those in the photo.

Steve in France · **Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 11:54 am

I would think they are all the same clone but perhaps I got lucky with Brads in more ways than one. I was happy to receive the Bamboo and it still surprises

. The original culms did not show the varigation or the green strips , the new culms do. It maybe possible to select culms with blades that have more white and produce clones that are consistant in there production of very varigated blades. This colour selection seems to work with other Bamboos like vivax, with vivax it's for culm colour. Vivax collection of sport culms produced V aureocaulis and Vivax "H Inversa" . The pic I took is of some of the best blades , so the whole plant is less showy than the few blades in the pic. Given that Harbin Inversa produces many new culms fast it should be easy to select a few extra special culms for an experiment. I'll have a go at it and see what happens.
All the Best
Steve

Alan_L · **Posted:** Thu May 21, 2009 1:54 am

I checked my Phy. aureosulcata 'Aureocaulis' and it *is* pretty nicely red! Not as dark as your Harbin Inversa, but nice. (It looks redder in the photo than it does to my eye though.)

It's got a lot of different colors on it right now: the red, the lighter yellow of the new culms (the parts that aren't red), the darker yellow (almost orange) older culms, the dark brown patches on the older culms (from cold damage), and the greener sections near the nodes. Interesting. Unexpected, but interesting.

ShmuBamboo · **Posted:** Tue May 26, 2009 9:11 pm

Wait until some of the culms get a random green stripe or two at the base of the culms. I have seen that happen on some older mature groves of Phy. a. Aureocaulis near here. I verified the type with the owner. They have a huge collection of bamboos, and some of them are displaying some interesting variations.

Alan_L · **Posted:** Tue May 26, 2009 10:12 pm

ShmuBamboo wrote:

Wait until some of the culms get a random green stripe or two at the base of the culms.

I have that already on this plant. Ultra-thin green stripe on at least one of the new culms.

ShmuBamboo · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 7:15 am

Dang, your plant beat me to the punch! Mine seems to have it as well, after looking at it this afternoon. Very thin parallel twin green lines. Almost invisible. Only on the first node of one older culm. I missed it before. My new shoots of Phy. a. Aureo. have a pink tint to them. Not as red as in your photo.

These seem to be an all-in-one bamboo! Striped culms, zig-zag culms, golden to red color culms, leaf stripes, and some random reversions to Phy. a. type. I am becomming an aureosulcata fanatic. I used to think that they were boring for some reason.

ghmerrill · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 7:43 am

I will have to get some pics of this years crop. probalby 75 percent of the culms have some zig to them, and one has some multiple zigs and zags....

ShmuBamboo · **Posted:** Thu May 28, 2009 5:16 am

My brother's Spectabilis is really zig-zagging hard this year. They are bending at 90 degree angles. Its is radical. Mine is all straight. :crybaby:

ghmerrill · **Posted:** Thu May 28, 2009 7:15 am

I have had several do 90 degree angles, however, after this last winter, I have learned to cull them.... if they dont have an even growth pattern, when we get snow, those that have radical bends and do not straighten back in line with the original growth break when the snow bends them....

I almost have enough ziggy shoots to cull out all the striaght ones from the grove by the house now. once leafing occurs, Im going to do some hard core culling, and again next spring. I think it will be neat to have just the bent culms on display.

jpluddite · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:16 pm

Steve in France,

I just found your post. In it you mentioned that your inversa had produced about 16 shoots. How big were they? How long was that after you had planted it, and how big was the plant when put it in the ground?

I bought a few inversas last April and I'm becoming enamored with this bamboo variety, so I'm very curious about how they will do this spring.

Cheers,

jp

VanDell · **Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:21 am

Hi!

Despite what you may have read in some books or publications, Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'Harbin inversa' is a good choice and you can expect vigorous growth, for sure. A lot of bullshit has been written about this beautiful bamboo, you should not believe all of it. 'Harbin inversa' is not a frustrating plant, it's not the reverse form of 'Harbin', it's not less winter hardy than the other Aureosulcatas, and ... and ... and.

New culms get a perfect red colour when exposed to sunlight which is just stunning.

Greetings from Germany!

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