A giant bamboo native to China/Taiwan, growing 20-25 with culm walls over an inch thick, it is majestic in appearance with large foliage often 25 cm long, vibrant green huge culms with long internode, growing in a tight clump formation. This is an excellent timber bamboo for house construction, crafts, and DIY projects internal wall can measure 2.5cm and poles 100-140mm in diameter. This bamboo dries to a lovely clean sheen.
Also a principal commercial variety for shoot production in Asia the shoots are incredible in colour orange with purple tops that shoot up at a rapid speed growing this year 1 metre in a week. Our Mother plant is impressive ... the large leaf variety. We propagate naturally - not from seed - giving a very good specimen which will perform for plantation use.
· Zones 1-11
· Germination rate: High