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Beauty & The Bamboo 306-NW. 84th St. Seattle, WA 98117-3117 U.S.A. |
206-781-9790 Stan Andreasen www.beautyandthebamboo.com |
Location(Seattle Washington)Open 7-days a week,sun up to sun down by appointment. We sell rare and common bamboo plants. Felco tools,gift certificates,wolverine shovels,bamboo slammers. We deliver locally. Rare Moso \'Bicolor\' & Moso \'Kiko\' for sale. |
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Chimonobambusa | Medium size running bamboos, often with raised, sometimes thorny nodes, or quadrangular culms, initiating new shoots in the fall or winter, or early spring hence "Winter bamboos". | ||||||||
Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda |
Walking stick | 20.00 | 1.30 | 10 | 4 | A rare Chinese bamboo noted for its inflated culm nodes. Used for walking sticks in Sichuan, and highly prized for dried shoots. | Qiongzhuea tumidissinoda | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Chusquea | A genus of C & S American bamboos that contains 134 described species, and possibly another 70 yet to be described. They are mostly clumping mountain bamboos, but some are runners. The solid culms usually bear one dominant branch and numerous branchlets. | ||||||||
Chusquea andina |
12.00 | 1.00 | 0 | 4 | Found at the treeline, the highest altitude species in Chusquea. Small spiky blue leaves. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Chusquea andina 'Blue Andes' |
12.00 | 1.00 | 0 | 5 | Small spiky blue leaves are unusual in bamboo. This species from the treeline of the Chilean Andes may be one of the hardiest of South American Bamboos. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Chusquea culeou 'Hillier's Form' |
9.00 | 0.80 | 5 | 4 | Stubby branches and compact leaves are combine with smaller stature. Considered to be a seedling variation of C. culeou. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Fargesia | Clumping bamboos from the alpine conifer forests of west and southwest China. Medium to small and all very cold hardy, but not tolerant of very high summer temperatures. Flowers like toothbrushes. Culms smooth. | ||||||||
Fargesia apicirubens 'White Dragon' |
8.00 | 0.50 | -5 | 3 | Selected seedling with Akebono style white variegation on spring leaves. | Fargesia dracocephala 'White Dragon' | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Fargesia dracocephala 'Rufa' |
10.00 | 0.50 | -10 | 2 | From Sichuan. Early shoots. Also known as Gansu 95-1. Close to the description of the real F. dracocephala. | Fargesia sp. 'rufa' | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Fargesia nitida |
FOUNTAIN BAMBOO | 12.00 | 0.50 | -15 | 2 | Upright culms with thick grey deciduous wax when young, may become nearly black. Sheaths orange-ribbed. First introduced as seed in 1889, from which many cultivars named. Those plants currently starting a protracted flowering phase and probably all about | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Fargesia nitida 'Jiuzhaigou Genf' |
12.00 | U | -15 | U | Red Culms. Is also called F. Jiuzhaigou 'Genf' and F. Sp. 'Genf'. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Fargesia nitida 'Jiuzhaigou' |
12.00 | 0.50 | -15 | 2 | New introductions. Several new seedling clones from Jiuzhaigou Reserve. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Fargesia robusta |
16.00 | 1.00 | 0 | 4 | From Sichuan Province, China, at elevations over 8,000 feet.Early shoots. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Fargesia sp. 'Scabrida' |
U | U | -5 | 4 | From Pingwu, Sichuan. Orange sheaths as F. dracocephala 'Rufa' but with more culm wax. Not F. scabrida. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys | Medium to giant runners which have a distinct groove above pairs of unequal branches at mid-culm nodes. They shoot in spring. | ||||||||
Phyllostachys aurea |
GOLDEN, FISHPOLE BAMBOO | 27.00 | 1.80 | 5 | 5 | The most commonly cultivated bamboo in the U.S., easily identified by one to several short internodes at the base of some of its culms. It is most invasive in areas with warm summers. Culm may grow to 3 inches diameter in favorable conditions. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys aurea 'Holochrysa' |
GOLDEN GOLDEN | 27.00 | 1.80 | 5 | 5 | Unlike the typical form whose culms stay green until old, these culms soon turn yellow, then golden orange. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys aureosulcata |
Yellow Groove | 45.00 | 2.20 | -5 | 5 | The culms are more slender and delicate than golden bamboo; young culms are green with a yellow groove. Culm internodes distinctly rough to the touch when young, and an occasional culm has a zigzag kink. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'Aureocaulis' |
26.00 | 1.50 | -5 | 5 | Culms are entirely yellow except for a few vertical green stripes. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'Harbin Inversa' |
26.00 | 1.50 | -5 | 5 | Yellow culms with fine green striping, no grooves other than the sulcus. It has a beautiful orange/crimson highlight for a while in the spring when grown in full sun | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'Spectabilis' |
Green groove | 26.00 | 1.50 | -5 | 5 | The culms are yellow with a green groove, just opposite of the typical form. Smaller in hottest areas. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys bambusoides 'Richard Haubrich' |
35.00 | 2.00 | 5 | 5 | Sport from base of 'Castillonis' with dramatic green stripes on white leaves, slow grower. Bamboo 23: 7. 2002 | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys bissetii |
40.00 | 2.00 | -10 | 5 | A vigorously growing species whose culms are somewhat darker green than 'golden bamboo'. It is one of the first species of the genus to shoot in the spring. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys edulis |
MOSO | 75.00 | 7.00 | 5 | 5 | Largest of the hardy bamboos. Young culms are covered with a velvety coat of soft hairs. The most used bamboo in China, used for food , timber, paper, plywood, and flooring. | Phyllostachys heterocycla pubescens | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys edulis 'Bicolor' |
MOSO | 75.00 | 7.00 | 5 | 5 | Yellow culms with green sulcus. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys edulis 'Heterocycla' |
U | U | 5 | U | This is the famous Tortoise Shell Bamboo, with nodes slanted alternately in opposite directions. In Japan it is called Kikkochiku. | Phyllostachys heterocycla | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys edulis 'Nabeshimana' |
U | U | 5 | 5 | Green with yellow broad and narrow stripes | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys nigra |
Black bamboo | 30.00 | 2.00 | 5 | 5 | Culms turn jet black after the first 6 months to one year. Popular because of its graceful habit and the sharp accent of its culm color. Said to grow larger in northern climates. It is not clear whether there is significant difference between some of the cultivars | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys nigra 'Hale' |
20.00 | 1.50 | 0 | 4 | Similar to the type, but smaller and hardier. Culms turn black almost immediately. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys vivax 'Aureocaulis' |
70.00 | 5.00 | 5 | 5 | The culms turn yellow with a few narrow green stripes. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Phyllostachys vivax 'Huangwenzhu Inversa' |
70.00 | 5.00 | 0 | 5 | The culms are yellow with a green groove. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Pseudosasa | Small to medium size running bamboos which usually have only one branch at a node. | ||||||||
Pseudosasa japonica |
Arrow Bamboo | 18.00 | 0.80 | 5 | 3 | Erect culms with large broad leaves, up to a foot long by 1.5 inches wide. Less invasive than most other runners. It does well in tubs and pots. The culms were used in ancient japan to make arrows. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Pseudosasa owatarii |
3.00 | 0.30 | 0 | 3 | Endemic to Yakushima, a small island in Japan. Form pygmaea is only a few inches tall. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Sasa | Running species, dwarf or up to 6 feet tall, with at most one branch per node. The leaves are usually large. | ||||||||
Sasa palmata |
7.00 | 0.50 | 5 | 2 | The thick, leathery leaves are up to 15 inches long by 21/2 inches wide. It does well in pots, looks best when grown in the shade. Grows taller in cool climates. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Sasaella | Similar to Sasa except that culms are more erect, leaves are smaller and the oral setae have bristles only near the base. | ||||||||
Sasaella masamuneana 'Albostriata' |
FUIRI-SHIIYAZASA | 6.00 | 0.30 | 5 | 3 | An attractive variegated bamboo with thick leaves striped in white or cream. | Sasaella glabra 'Albostriata' | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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Thamnocalamus | Clumping bamboos from the mountains of eastern Asia and Africa, similar to Fargesia. | ||||||||
Thamnocalamus crassinodus 'Kew Beauty' |
15.00 | 0.75 | 15 | 3 | very small leaves on blue-grey canes which become red or brown with age. | Sources | ![]() MORE |
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