Nicholas wrote: I hope you meant that ironically , unless you enjoy the smell of decomposing flesh.

Of corpse he did.

What is that monster ? :D I see it's in the forest environment, that also helps with large leaves, I have them in full sun, so they tend to have tiny leaves. :D Brad (needmore) IDed it as possibly praecox based on a picture of an immature shoot (here's the thread - http://www.bambooweb.info/bb/view...

Check out this bad boy; almost 270 mm (10.5 in.). Have to admit that I did pee on this one a lot.

I include juvenile to mean that new rhizomes may fire off immature buds and the resulting culms look like a juvenile planting/newly dug plant's initial new culms. EDIT: I would also add that on top killed species, I often seen large leaves the following year, such as in Steve's photo below. This is...

I think this is a brilliant design feature of some bamboos that when rhizome mass is small, the plant opts for a proportionally greater leaf mass (compared to culm mass) in order to maximize solar collection area (and thus rhizome growth). Then when rhizome mass reaches a certain point, culm mass in...

I get that on juvenile shoots of several of mine (rubro, praecox, yellow groove). One plant has a leaf that is over 25.4 cm (10 in.) long and 38 mm (1.5 in.) wide. Looks like a pseudosasa japonica leaf.

What exactly is a juvenile shoot, btw?

That reminds me. I thought I saw a totally variegated culm in a grove of bamboo alongside the interstate a week or two ago. Those who know me well know that I have a talent for spotting these kinds of things. It's not too far from home but it's really difficult to get a good look at while going pas...

Compost and mulch the heck out of it, I'm sure it will do better than most anyone elses. How tall are the culms? If they are really tall then it's probably doing pretty good there, maybe just some leaf burn that it grows out of fast in spring. My culms are about 8'-12''; the parent grove's are 20-2...

I have a challenging environment like that. I have had mixed results with aureosulcata in water logged conditions: some live and some die; hard to figure out why some make it and others don't. My koi (a variant of aurea) was extremely intolerant of wet feet. It looked fine throughout the very wet wi...

I decided to go for it. Only 3 small divisions, so it was an easy dig and plant.

My nidularia (3rd year) survived the winter with total leaf kill. Re-leafage wasn't so great, but it did send up enough shoots to assuage my concerns. Jewel weed that has been competing with it has started to lose its vigor, so I've begun clearing some of it out. Lo and behold there were 3-4 ft rhiz...

OK, that may be all it is then. These shoots are juvenile survivors. I have noticed the larger than normal leafs on juvenile shoots for several of my varieties, but only one variety has the huge oral setae. Looks just like your picture. Are there other varieties besides moso that have copious, long,...

Can copious quantities of long petiole oral setae ever be used to uniquely ID a bamboo? One of my boos has very hairy petioles with many of the oral setae being 1/2" (12.7mm) or more in length. In other words, is there a phyllostachys boo (or boos) that has this as a unique characteristic?

I'm probably wrong (as usual), but I'll give it a go: Incense bamboo (atrovaginata, congesta)?

The pots were on their sides, the culms spiraled around inside the box. Sounds like what Bamboo Plantation Garden Center in Mississippi sent me. Pencil lead-thin culm looped in a small box; so thin it wouldn't even stand on its own. No root ball. Lot of nerve to sell that kind of crap IMO. Won't ev...