Moso does not like the cold here, and gets leaf burned easy in winter in anything below 20 deg. F. They also do not like hot dry weather in summer either. I have measured 4.5" Moso culms at Bamboo and Koi Garden in West, Linn, Oregon. Paul has the largest Moso stand that I have seen in Oregon t...

Goats love bamboo. As do sheep. When the goats or sheep got into my one acre garden area when I lived on a sheep ranch in Southern Oregon, they went for the bamboo first. They passed up the black and rasp berries and even the roses and maples to get at the bamboo. They love eating all of those plant...

Lots of Phyllos have a purple tinge to the new culms, like Nuda and Bory. I doubt that is phy. violascens, as there is not enough striping or color to it. It looks almost like Phy. iridescens, but the striping in them tend to be more pronounced than the ones in these photos. I do not know of any iri...

Add more from the BG web site on these guys. It seems that they have already been genetically tested, and they are indeed not Far. nitidas, though they are closely related. From: http://www.bamboogarden.com/Fargesia%20Jiuzhaigou%20comparison.htm F. nitida and F. sp. 'Jiuzhaigou' are very similar, bu...

Excellent link there. So as I suspected in my OP above, we can consider the Jiuzhaigous as a separate species from the nitidas. Or at least try to. And of course, how do we lobby to get the ABS to drop the nitida prefix from the Jiuzhaigou species? Also after reading their entire web site, now I wan...

Moso typically defoliates a lot here in winter and tends to look ratty as all heck this time of year. I have read that Moso defoliates a lot in China as well in winter. As for shoot size and height, there may be more rhizome there than you think. If it was a warm winter they will likely shoot more t...

W I am getting no shoots from my Nitida/Jiuzhaigous this year and no new leaf growth. My old generation always sent up shoots in summer. If it were a wet summer they'd come in late July, if dry mid August to mid September. Now the new generation seedlings shoot in mid Spring. I don't get it, is it ...

Well, I grow far less cold hardy boos here, like Chusquea couleo and Chimanobambusa square stem and marbled, and those are doing fine this year here. I did not even move them into the garage this winter like I had to last year. I left them out near the house covered with leaf mulch. We had some late...

Nice photos posted here. I have what looks like dependable has posted above as 'Jiuzhaigou'. They are rather ratty. My other type II is the same as shown by BG on their web site, tall, slender and small leaves. Except they took a hit this winter and they have very few leaves left and they are not sh...

wufeng wrote:My plant is partially flowering for two years. Producing no viable seeds yet.

So we can add the Czech Republic to the list where Phy. glauca 'Yunzhu' is flowering?

I am also confused as to what species my Far. Rufa/Green Panda is actually. There seems to be some contention that it is one of 3 species... but which one? Why do you think, it is one from 3? I do not like tissue plants. I have mostly bad experience with plants from tissue, so I can recomend buy an...

Shmu and Nicholas, you two play nice now. PS Shmu your bambusoides is not cold hardy? Mine sure is. In fact all of them up here are. It stays green through the winter and I'm at 3,100 ft. elevation roughly. I hope you enjoyed seeing his large purple bamboo. Cheers. As Nick says, I was not starting ...

Unfortunately someone has posted a photo of it as Phy. bambusoides violascens on Wikipedia.

I sent some of what looked like viable seeds from this boo to someone here on this forum in a "trade" but I never got any feedback from that trader, or the rhizome that I as supposed to get in trade. That was from an earlier bloom from this boo 2 years ago. Last year the old culms bloomed,...

Amusing. I was once heavily involved in the AOS when I lived in California, and I had over 100 different species of orchids at one time, most of them Cymbidiums. My orchid collection is now on permanent loan to a woman in Mendocino Co. in California near Anchor Bay. As for the bamboo cultivar naming...