I think it's time we put this description to rest "Tolerates sea breezes". The problem with it is several fold.An attractive medium-size tropical, produces many culms each year, taller under trees. Tolerates sea breezes.
Every time I do a plant sale (did one this weekend) I get requests for the "salt tolerant" bamboo. The description doesn't say "salt tolerant", but that is the interpretation that a lot of people are getting by reading this statement. They want a bamboo that they can grow at their beach home or along side a salt water canal. I don't think it has any more of a liking for salt than does any other bamboo, which brings me to another problem with using the phrase on the description.
If B. malingensis tolerates salt in some form or another, then the conclusion by many then is that bamboos are salt sensitive plants (more so than most plants) because B. malingensis is singled out as tolerating salt in its daily life.
We even have a big grower of plants using the term "Seaside Bamboo" as a nickname for B. malingensis. And I'm sure they got the idea for the nickname from the ABS Source List. I believe it is Morning Star Nursery that is using that nickname.
If we need a description replacement for the "Sodium" removal, then I'm sure we can get some ideas from these pictures of B. malingensis: