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: $50
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: $25
A thin-walled ornamental with beautiful suffused yellow culms wth green stripes and large leaves with cream stripes; always flowering, few seeds if any.
Also known as "Temple Bamboo"
Country of Origin: Bali
Size: 5 cm x 6-8 m
Price for Offset: $60
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: $25
This is a thorny giant that forms an open clump with as much as a meter between culms. This variety has very striking green and white striped culms, but it's best to keep the very long thorny lower branches trimmed off.
Mature height 20-25m
Diam. 10-15 cm
Country of Origin: Colombia
Price: $25
A straight and slender variety of Guadua much exploited in Colombia. Guaduas tend to have thorny branches at the base and in the crown while the long middle part of the culm is free of them.
Size: 10 cm X 12-18 m
Country of Origin: Colombia
Price for offset: $10
A very handsome straight bamboo with smooth nodes and no lower branches.
Size: 10 cm X 20m
From: Indonesia
Price: $25
Preferred material for traditional musical instruments, also for furniture. Shoots come up green and turn black in the light, stay black after harvest. Beautiful large-leaved ornamental. Likes heat and water, rich soil.
Size: 10cm x 18m
Country of Origin: Indonesia
Price for offset: $75
An attractive large-leaved medium-size bamboo with edible shoots, also good for weaving.
Size: 8-10 cm x 15-18 m
Country of Origin: Taiwan
Price for offset: $25