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Chusquea culeou Hillier's Form

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 6:40 am
by needmore
Very hard to photo, the mass of leaves make the culms lean downward and from a few feet it looks sloppy but if you lift the branches up the beautiful foliage pops. Small, unique green leaves, I'll try to get more overall photos.

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Re: Chusquea culeou Hillier's Form

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:10 pm
by Alan_L
How big will this get? I've always thought the Chusquea bamboos looked really nice in my bamboo books. :)

Re: Chusquea culeou Hillier's Form

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:21 am
by needmore
I think this one stays smaller, like 6-8 feet? Bamboo Garden has a photo of a larger one on their website, mine came from Tradewinds. Hardiness unknown, it did not notice 29F but I will be more curious how it fancies our 100F+ days ahead.

Re: Chusquea culeou Hillier's Form

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 3:14 am
by Cooper12
it looks nice . My Llaima is pushing . its a small division I got from Fred Last year. It took all the snow without issue and handled the heat last summer in its 2 gallon pot. so far has 2 new shoots. Culeou forms are so attractive. I wish more Chusquea would live up here