Help with ID? - Ans. Phyllostachys aurea

[Mibus2]

HI,
I've looked through the pictures to try and figure out what kind of bamboo I have but wow this is confusing. :)
I have a few pictures I took when I posted to another forum I found and joined to figure out all the plants we have growing here so I will post those and I will go out tomorrow and see if I can find some roots that I know I pulled out of the flower bed and take pictures of them too if that will help.
I have to get things figured out soon or hubby will have all but a small patch cut down and will burn it if I don't have plans for what he has cut. He has already cut a path right behind the lattice fence that the mower fits through, but I did get him to lean some it up against a tree and some is laying down next to the beginning of where it all starts.

Help???
Anyone near me need some bamboo if it the kind you want?

[Mark Meckes]

Hi Mibus2,
It's a Phyllostachys (http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showgallery.php?cat=502) but there are many species in this genus.
Approx what diameter (thickness)? ... can you measure the largest culms?
Can you provide some more pics? If possible make them larger in size.
Spring shoots are a great way to ID bamboo, which btw they are edible, but tis not the season.
Some pics of the culms may help to ID this boo.

Mark

[Mibus2]

Ok I went out and took some more pictures (gotta love digital) and I looked at things more too. The small shoots coming up like in the picture above come right through the ground there is no covering around them or anything and the largest one I found is 6" in circumference and cut ones was 3" including the center hole.

[sasa fool]

Your photos are rather suggestive of Phyllostachys aurea, due to the occasional compressed/distorted internodes and the overall branching pattern. The compressed nodes could also possibly suggest Phyllostachys heteroclada 'Solidstem', but I believe that the branches are not horizontal enough for this species.

[Mark Meckes]

Hi, great pics!
This is definitely Phyllostachys aurea (http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showgallery.php?cat=503)

As Brad pointed out, the occasionally shortened or distorted internodes are a unique characteristic of this bamboo.

This bamboo also "came with our property", planted many decades ago.
Here's a posting from several years ago ...

Our Grove - Phyllostachys aurea - Austin TX USA (http://www.bamboocraft.net/forums/showthread.php?t=563)

I'll reply to your thread New to Bamboo and East Texas (http://www.bamboocraft.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2794) with some more comments ...

Mark

[Mibus2]

Thank you both for your help in identifying the species I have!!!!

I would have posted back sooner but we had to take hubbies youngest boy back this afternoon to his place in Austin...... yeah I was there today and had I known my way around I would have looked for your place mark to see your yard and all the bamboo you have in front, But I only know 155 to 79 to 620 to 183 to over by the Westwood high school I think it is and back out.:)

Phyllis