Can you help me identify this? Giant Timber of Sorts?
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Can you help me identify this? Giant Timber of Sorts?
Hi. I purchased some bamboo and planted it last year. I purchased 5 gallon plants, put it in the ground in the fall and new shoots are starting to come up like crazy now. I was told it was giant timber. I assumed old hammi, but now I'm not sure. Now that the shoots are coming up, I'm trying to figure out what type of bamboo this is. Can you help me identify it? Thanks so much.
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Re: Can you help me identify this? Giant Timber of Sorts?
I looks like a Phyllostachys not a bambusa, timber bamboo is used loosely and might be Phy bambusoides, might be another species.
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Re: Can you help me identify this? Giant Timber of Sorts?
Those shoots don't look like bambusoides. I'm afraid that's all I know though -
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Re: Can you help me identify this? Giant Timber of Sorts?
It looks like a Semiarundinaria species. Theres 3 branches at a node with a smaller, and not as pronounced sulcus as phyllostachys. The shoots, and the long leaves look semiarundinaria like to me.
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Re: Can you help me identify this? Giant Timber of Sorts?
JWH wrote:It looks like a Semiarundinaria species. Theres 3 branches at a node with a smaller, and not as pronounced sulcus as phyllostachys. The shoots, and the long leaves look semiarundinaria like to me.
I like it and think you've got it, though who would call this giant timber bamboo?
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Re: Can you help me identify this? Giant Timber of Sorts?
Thanks for the help. Either variety has confirmed my suspicion that the bamboo is not clumping as originally thought. When i bought the bamboo I did ask the nursery about clumping or running and he said clumping. I knew to ask for it, just now how to identify it. Grrrr. I guess it has to come out. No barriers or anything and you can see in the photos already inches away from my lawn after the first year. What a bummer.
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
Re: Can you help me identify this? Giant Timber of Sorts?
Somebody with too much S. fastuosa stock? or doesn't know what they're talking about? or just repeating what they were told years ago? or maybe just a simple mistake (if came from a nursery) and shipped the wrong plant?needmore wrote:...though who would call this giant timber bamboo?
Alan.
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