Bamboo

Bamboo, Arundinaria, Bambusa and Phyllostachys

Bamboo is the largest plant in the grass family, Poaceae formerly called Graminae. Below are several species and their relatives. There are some forty or more varieties of these graceful woody grasses, which are hardy in all but the coldest parts of England, though best in sheltered places. They can be invasive, so choose varieties carefully, or plant in a contained area or large planter.

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Arundinaria

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Bambusa disticha

See Bambusa Disticha

Phyllostachys Heterocycla

This is called by the Japanese Kiko-chiku, or the "tortoiseshell Bamboo," from the curious arrangement of the alternately and partially suppressed internodes at the base of the stem, which sheathe it in plate armour like the scales on a tortoises back. At about 2 feet or 3 feet from the ground the nodes are regularly defined, as in other Bamboos.

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Marliacea--A

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Marliacea--A - re, handsome species. The only plant of it I possess has in its third year grown to a height of 8 feet, and promises to become very tall and vigorous. The stem is a dark green, shining like enamel; the internodes at the base are very close together, not more than 1 1/2 inches to 2 inches.

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Fastuosa

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Fastuosa - A very stately and beautiful plant, quite conspicuous among its fellows. The leaves are from 5 inches to 7 inches long by three-quarters of an inch to 1 inch in width, tapering to a sharp point, and markedly constricted at about an inch from the end, which has the appearance of a little tongue. Tall, spreading, gracefully plumed with foliage, which for richness and beauty of color is without a rival.

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Aurea

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Aurea - The distinctive name aurea is not very happily chosen, for there is nothing golden about the plant, unless it be the yellow stems, and these are not peculiar to the variety named.

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Mitis

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Mitis - This is the tallest, and in that respect the noblest, of all the Bamboos capable of being cultivated in this country. At Shrubland the culms of plants imported seven years ago are 19 feet 5 inches high and 4 1/4 inches in circumference. In China and Japan it grows to 60 feet high. The stems, some of which spring out of the ground like spears, are, when fully developed, beautifully arched.

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Quilioi

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Quilioi - A very distinct Bamboo, introduced from the north of Japan. To me it appears to have a character altogether its own, and the many botanists and gardeners to whom I have shown it have without exception come round to my opinion. Altogether a notable Bamboo, growing at Shrubland to a height of 18 feet 6 inches. Syn. Phyllostachys Mazeli.

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Viridi-Glaucescens

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Viridi-Glaucescens - A most elegant and graceful Bamboo, growing to a great height—nearly 18 feet at Shrubland. The root-stock is very active, the plant being a great runner, while many of the culms come almost horizontally out of the ground, giving the plant a very wide spread.

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Violescens

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Violescens - This is sometimes said to be a variety of P. viridi-glaucescens, but quite different both in appearance and behaviour. It is somewhat more tender, the leaves being apt to be cut by frost, which gives the plant an ugly appearance in winter, but with the spring the culms are clothed with new foliage, and after all it is only those shoots which come into existence in the late autumn which suffer.

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Henonis

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Henonis - To my taste this is the loveliest of all our Bamboos, and it is perfectly hardy, bearing up bravely against our coldest weather. The slender tall stems are green at first, growing yellower with age, slightly zigzagged. The root-stock runs rather freely, but it is to its habit that this Bamboo owes its surpassing loveliness. The two-year-old culms, borne down by the weight of their own foliage, bend almost to the earth in graceful curves, forming a pretty groundwork from which the stems of the year spring up, arching and waving their feathery fronds, the delicate green leaves seeming to float in the air.

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Boryana

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Boryana - One of the handsomest and most vigorous of the hardy Bamboos, very graceful in its habit. Like P. nigra, the stems are green during their first year, but change color the second year to a dull brown splashed with large deep purple or black notches.

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Castillonis

Phyllostachys Heterocycla Castillonis - A most lovely plant. The foliage is larger than it is in most of the Bamboos, some of the leaves being as much as between 8 inches and 9 inches long by nearly 2 inches broad. When they first appear they are striped with bright orange-yellow, which in time fades to a creamy white. As the sheaths of the branchlets are of a very pretty pink, the plant has a tricolored effect.

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