AnalogDog
8th April 2008, 05:19 PM
I got this skinny little bamboo as a present about 2 years ago. At that time it was in a 2 gallon pot. Now it is 3-4 feet in diameter at the ground, and 6-8 feet high. I live in Washington State, just north of Seattle, in USDA Zone 8b.
The stems are quite skinny only about 1/4" at the base. It is hard to say that it is clumping or not. I understand the general defination of clumping is that the rhizomes do not extend more than the thickness of the stem before surfacing. While this plant is not highly invasive, it appears that it extends on the order of 10x the stem width before surfacing.
Looking around at different sites on bamboo, there seem to be few that have such thin stems The stems are medium to dark green with about 4" between nodes. At each node, there appear to be 3 to 6 branches that are formed.
After working the key at bamboo identification I am thinking that it may be Sarocalamus, but the crux is whether I should call it clumping or non-clumping.
The stems are quite skinny only about 1/4" at the base. It is hard to say that it is clumping or not. I understand the general defination of clumping is that the rhizomes do not extend more than the thickness of the stem before surfacing. While this plant is not highly invasive, it appears that it extends on the order of 10x the stem width before surfacing.
Looking around at different sites on bamboo, there seem to be few that have such thin stems The stems are medium to dark green with about 4" between nodes. At each node, there appear to be 3 to 6 branches that are formed.
After working the key at bamboo identification I am thinking that it may be Sarocalamus, but the crux is whether I should call it clumping or non-clumping.