Other bamboos with yellow sulcus besides Yellow Groove?

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Other bamboos with yellow sulcus besides Yellow Groove?

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Is Yellow Groove the only cold hardy (zone 6-7) bamboo with a yellow/pale green sulcus? I have one with a pale yellow sulcus that seems somehow different than my other YG.
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There are others but 'up rub' the culm and if it is sandpapery it is yellow groove...
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needmore wrote:There are others but 'up rub' the culm and if it is sandpapery it is yellow groove...
It must be YG, then. There is a slight sandpaper feel on some of the culms (others are smooth), but not nearly as noticeable as on my other YG. There is also a little bit of this kind of discoloration on a few of the culms - http://www.bambooweb.info/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6580 - though not as much as that vivax. Haven't seen this yet on YG.

Thanks for your help.
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You'd have to go out of your way to have any of the others as they are not so common, there are vivax, aurea, viridis, arcana, bambusoides & some others as well but not easy to stumble across.
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