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Re: Latest Phyllostachys to shoot?

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needmore wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 9:05 pm Jos VDP from whom I picked up the Virella thought that it was closely aligned with Atrovaginata and mine was not at all, very close to Rubro so I've always suspected a mixup on my part or someone else's. There were no other plants in that import trip of mine that seemed mixed up so I suspect if it happened it did so upstream from me and I have no guess what it might be.

As you can see on my website if you can currently find the Rubro, my Rubro shoots were showing the really colorful culm leaves and the Virella never did though that might be maturity and perhaps yours will? I might be mistaken but I do not think that Rubro is common at all in Europe so it seems unlikely to be that but...

I have Phyllostachys virella from Jos too (2005). This plant is very close too P. rubromarginata. Here it is the last bamboo to shoot every year. It is the most clumping Phyllostachys in my collection. Has around 6 meters now. Hardines is better then rubromarginata on old stems, young stems are often damaged during the winter.
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2005 was when I obtained mine as well.
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needmore wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 4:18 pm 2005 was when I obtained mine as well.
So, I think we have true virella, but visual similarity with atrovaginata is not confirmed. Maybe the smell of stems caused this description.
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Perhaps, I know that Jos knows the bamboo quite well, my notes indicate that he thought it had similar hardiness to Phy atrovaginata, for me it did not but my climate was quite different.
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Re: Latest Phyllostachys to shoot?

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I have virella cca. 1,5 m next to atrovaginata. My observation is the same like your. Virella is less hardy. Especially the new stems have no enought time to reach maturity and are often frozen or snow break them.
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