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| Company | Contact information | Description |
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| Oahu Bamboo 387 Ilima St Wahiawa, HI 96786 U.S.A. |
8087235466 Alice Terry www.oahubamboo.com |
We are a commercial grower of over a dozen varieties of non-invasive clumping bamboo plants on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. |
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| Bambusa | Genus of tropical and subtropical clumping bamboos, usually giant, with numerous branches at a node, one or three much larger than the rest. New shoots appear in late summer or fall in their native areas. | ||||||||
| Bambusa chungii |
33.00 | 2.50 | 21 | 5 | Culms covered with white powder. Thin walled. Used in papermaking, weaving. | Sources |  MORE |
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| Bambusa chungii var. barbelatta |
22.00 | 1.50 | 21 | 5 | Grows to about 3/4 the size, with lighter ring of hair around new culm nodes and looser culm sheath blade. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa glaucophylla |
MALAY DWARF | 15.00 | 1.00 | 30 | 5 | Dense, erect, bushy, variegated. Used as an ornamental hedge, easy to prune to desired shape. Previously sold as Bambusa variegata. | Bambusa variegata (hort.) | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa lako |
TIMOR BLACK | 50.00 | 3.50 | 28 | 5 | Shiny culms green through brown to purple-black with some bold green or pale yellow stripes. Erect culm sheath blades on nearly hairless shoots. Flowers in US prove it to be Bambusa. From Timor. | Gigantochloa atroviolacea 'Timor Black' | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa multiplex 'Alphonse Karr' |
25.00 | 1.50 | 18 | 5 | Similar to the species, but the culms and branches are bright yellow with irregular longitudinal narrow dark green stripes. New shoots and culms are often reddish. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa textilis |
WEAVER'S BAMBOO | 40.00 | 2.00 | 18 | 5 | Tight clumps. An extremely handsome plant that arches gracefully. The thin-walled culms are used for weaving. | Sources | MORE |
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| Bambusa textilis var. gracilis |
30.00 | 1.30 | 18 | 5 | Culm more slender than the typical B. textilis, nodding top, graceful foliage. | Sources | MORE |
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| Dendrocalamus | Giant tropical clumping bamboos similar to Bambusa, often with bigger branches and leaves, and hairier culms. | ||||||||
| Dendrocalamus minor 'Amoenus' |
56.00 | 3.00 | 25 | 5 | Culms pale yellow with green stripes, smaller than the species. Dimentions listed is for tropical areas was listed as 25 ft by 2.0 in | Sources | MORE |
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| Gigantochloa | Giant, tropical, clumping bamboos similar to Bambusa. G. atroviolacea, G. atter, G. robusta, and G. pseudoarundinacea were formerly all considered to be forms of G. verticillata. Rarely flower or come true from seed, and may be "natural hybrids." | ||||||||
| Gigantochloa atroviolacea |
TROPICAL BLACK | 50.00 | 3.50 | 25 | 5 | Matte culms in tight clumps green through dark brown/black with narrow green stripes. Reflexed culm sheath blades on hairy shoots. From Java and Sumatra. | Sources | MORE |
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| Gigantochloa pseudoarundinacea |
100.00 | 5.00 | 28 | 5 | Formerly included in G. verticillata complex. The culms when young are light green, with thin yellow stripes. | Gigantochloa verticillata | Sources | MORE |
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| Nastus | A genus of slender to large bamboos found from Madagascar to the Solomon Islands. Erect, scrambling, or climbing, many branches at each node. | ||||||||
| Nastus elatus |
60.00 | 4.00 | 25 | 5 | Long narrow light grayish-green leaves, erect new lime green culms turn yellowish with age. From coastal New Guinea. Needs humid area. Shoots edible raw. | Sources | MORE |
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| Schizostachyum | Giant to shrub-like tropical, clumping, nodes are usually un-swollen, culm walls thin. Continuously produce flowers without dying, rarely set seed. | ||||||||
| Schizostachyum brachycladum |
45.00 | 4.00 | 35 | 5 | Erect, tight-clumping, drooping tips. Cultivars with coloured culms popular ornamentals in Asia. | Sources | MORE |
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