This is the same as Temple Bamboo above, a large-leaved beauty, but with green culms with yellow stripes; the stripes become more pronounced as the clump matures.
Price, $40
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Bambusa textilis seedlings
Bambusa textilis is a very useful medium-size bamboo (2"), straight with almost no lower branches, with small leaves and a graceful habit. I use it for curtain rods and such, also to make a clean and fine looking esterilla (flattened bamboo).
Originally from China and used for weaving among many other things, it is a good bamboo to have around, one that will not overwhelm a small garden. It is a clumper and will not invade the neighbor's yard.
More fotos and info at: http://www.bambooweb.info/ShowPictures.php?Type=B&r=20&BooID=66&Desc=&Loc=&Cat=*&Match=AND&Button=Search
B. textilis seedlings, $15 while they last
Melocanna baccifera
Rare seedlings available. Melcanna baccifera, an important bamboo native to the Indian subcontinent, has come up on its 50 year flowering cycle here in Costa Rica. One of the very few bamboos to produce a large pulpy fruit, these are available only until the plant stops producing them. They can be had as germinated seedlings (much faster in growth than a normal-sized bamboo seed) or as the more easily transportable fruits.
To know more about this very useful and interesting plant, check out these links:
http://www.inbar.int/publication/txt/tr17/Melocanna/baccifera.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/plant-vs-predator.html
There is also a section dedicated to this elite bamboo in Floyd McClure's classic book "The Bamboos" including photos of houses made of this bamboo in every detail.
Melocanna fruits, $5.00 each; Melocanna seedlings, $15.
Dendrocalamus asper
Sometimes referred to as "timber bamboo", this species has tall straight culms that are useful for construction. The lower culm nodes are "bearded" with adventitious roots and the very erect culms are covered by a thin brownish "felt," so that the mature clump has a very august, almost spiritual presence.
Size: 15-20cm x 30m
Country of Origin: S.E. Asia
Price for offset: $60
Schizostachyum jaculans
This is a very slender thin-walled bamboo with very long internodes and pendulous tips, sometimes used for blowpipes by indigenous peoples. Can also be opened and flattened easily to use for weaving mats. Sometimes used as a large garden fence. The habit of this bamboo is to form a large mushroom-shaped crown.
Mature height: 7-10 m
Diam. 2-4 cm
Country of Origin: Indonesia
Price for offset: $35
Pseudosasa Japonica
This is also known as "Arrow bamboo" because of its straight and slender culms. It will clump and then run a bit to clump again, a kind of mixture of a clumping bamboo and a running bamboo (amphipodial). Not too difficult to control however.
Mature height: 5 m
Diam 1.5-2 cm
Country of Origin: Japan
Price for offset: $35
Plants
- Bambusa lako
- Bambusa multiplex var.Fernleaf
- Dendrocalamus asper
- Dendrocalamus brandisii
- Dendrocalamus latiflorus
- Gigantochloa atroviolacae
- Gigantochloa atter
- Guadua angustifolia
- Guadua angustifolia var. Bicolor
- Guadua sp. (Brazil)
- Melocanna baccifera seedlings
- Pseudosasa Japonica
- Schizostachym brachycladum var. Bali Kuning
- Schizostachyum brachycladum
- Schizostachyum jaculans
