Bamboo at Nashville Zoo - TN USA

[karlsutton]

I have a few photos, on my next visit I'll get some better ones. The Nashville Zoo has what they call the bamboo trail that is very dense & that is where the picture of my daughter is.
http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/data/702/thumbs/IMG_3427.jpg (http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showphoto.php?photo=2868)

http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/data/702/thumbs/IMG_3387.jpg (http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showphoto.php?photo=2867) http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/data/702/thumbs/IMG_3385.jpg (http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showphoto.php?photo=2866)

[Mark Meckes]

Hi Karl,
The bamboo shown are Phyllostachys (http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showgallery.php?cat=502) species.

Your daughter is having fun in the Yellow Groove Bamboo - Phyllostachys aureosulcata (http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showgallery.php?cat=520) (Gallery at Bamboo Flora)

Another characteristic of this species is that some culms begin as a zig-zag.

Phyllostachys aureosulcata - Spring 1992 - NE Pennsylvania
http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/data/520/thumbs/1aureosulcata7.jpg (http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showphoto.php?photo=897)

This species was introduced into the US in 1907. Due to it's cold-hardiness of around -10 F / -23 C and it's promotion in the 1920's by the USDA as a good 'farm use' and early shoot crop, it is one of the most widely distributed bamboos in the eastern USA.

On your next visit, check to see if the grooves on the culms where the branches start are a golden yellow color.
There is another form - Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'Alata'. in which the groove (also called a sulcus) remains green.

Mark

[Bamabamboo]

My wife and I went to the Nashville Zoo on Saturday.....She went to see the animals, I went to see the bamboo (and the animals)...lol....They have one area of the zoo called "The Bamboo Trail"....Its very well laid out and looks great.

Cyrus

PICS from the Nashville ZOO.....PICS Taken on September 1, 2007...

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Ghostkitten1/bamboo/zoobamboo049.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Ghostkitten1/bamboo/zoobamboo004.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Ghostkitten1/bamboo/zoobamboo033.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Ghostkitten1/bamboo/zoobamboo043.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Ghostkitten1/bamboo/zoobamboo044.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Ghostkitten1/bamboo/zoobamboo046.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Ghostkitten1/bamboo/zoobamboo034.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Ghostkitten1/bamboo/zoobamboo029.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Ghostkitten1/bamboo/zoobamboo024.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/Ghostkitten1/bamboo/zoobamboo011.jpg

[Mark Meckes]

Thanks for the virtual tour Cyrus!
Some day we'll figure out how many kinds of bamboo species they have growing there.
The bamboo around the crooked culm looks like Phyllostachys aureosulcata - Yellow Groove Bamboo

Mark