Spent yesterday digging pieces of this Shibatea in the south. I got it from a friend on Vancouver Island quite awhile back. I assumed it was kumasaca yet it never gets higher than knee-height. It has stayed in a clump about 4ft across from a 4" pot until this year when it's decided to go wandering 7 or more feet from the "clump". Could it be one of the other Shibatea spp.?
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Shibatea sp.
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Shibatea sp.
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Re: Shibatea sp.
Brad can answer better than me, but Sh. chinensis looks pretty much identical to Sh. kumasaca. Sh. lancifolia (going from memory) looks quite different based on Brad's photos. Are there more in that genus than those three?
Is the parent plant that short too?
Is the parent plant that short too?
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Re: Shibatea sp.
I am aware of 4 members of the genus, one looks like Lancifolia (with longer leaves than yours) and the other 3 don't...so I can't tell those 3 apart but yours appears to be one of them. More than likely S kumasaca.
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Re: Shibatea sp.
Alan - The main clump is the same height and it has never shown any signs of passing knee-height.
Funny the main clump is a tad yellow despite the soil being very acid and yet these new runners are a good normal green. I wonder if someone in the distant past might have been dumping ashes in the main clump area.
I got the plant simply as Shibatea and doubt the woman that gave it to me would have had access to the other species. Just curious why it has stayed so short as the climate is very mild down there.
We got some nice sturdy props off it on Wednesday.
This phenomenom of the tips dying with the first frost, and the edges of some Sasa leaves - what exactly is the mechanism? How can one part of the leaf be frost-sensitive and the rest of the leaf be hardy. Accumulation of something in tips and edges?
johnw - -2c and a bitter night ahead, maybe -8 to -10c.
Funny the main clump is a tad yellow despite the soil being very acid and yet these new runners are a good normal green. I wonder if someone in the distant past might have been dumping ashes in the main clump area.
I got the plant simply as Shibatea and doubt the woman that gave it to me would have had access to the other species. Just curious why it has stayed so short as the climate is very mild down there.
We got some nice sturdy props off it on Wednesday.
This phenomenom of the tips dying with the first frost, and the edges of some Sasa leaves - what exactly is the mechanism? How can one part of the leaf be frost-sensitive and the rest of the leaf be hardy. Accumulation of something in tips and edges?
johnw - -2c and a bitter night ahead, maybe -8 to -10c.
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Re: Shibatea sp.
Those look very much like my Sh. kumasaca here, and they never grow more than 2 feet high, in pots or in the ground, in shade or full sun. The leaves burn for several reasons it seems. I have soft well water here, and the soil is acid, but the leaf tips still tend to burn here for whatever reason.
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