Rural Land in my local area is about $10 000 australian per acre

That sounds like a good project you will have fun planting all that land. Tropical clumpers do better here. The only runners thàt grow ok here are Phyllostachys aurea and chimonobambusa. Does anyone know if Chimonobambusa quadrangularis is worth planting for shoot production. I have seen the shoots ...

hamiltonii is superb. if you can ever try some, you should. i ate this raw in china. One of my "plan Bs" is to harvest my 100 acres as a shoot farm and vacuum seal them so they can be preserved "naturally" for up to a month in refrigerated conditions. this means you can ship the...

Aurea is great eating. I harvested it twice now since i posted this thread. Out of curiousity I nibbled on the raw shoot. Hardly any bitterness at all (but didn't swallow any). After peeling, slicing and boiling I have to say its a nice food. No sign of bitterness after cooking and very crisp shoots...

Oldhamii is good. Maybe in the future I will sell some at the local markets or something. Will see what happens I still need to build up my plantation.

Thought I would start this thread so people can share there experiences about eating bamboo shoots and their favourite species of bamboo for edible shoots or their experiences eating bamboo. Most common species you see growing here which produces edible shoots is Bambusa oldhamii, grows to about 25 ...

Check out this vid on youtube. This woman has some skills with the knife. Dendrocalamus asper in a Thai market. Can't wait till I get shoots like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HInqR76E5rQ

ok thanks. Just wanted to know if its worth it and it seems like it. I will try boiling them in one or more changes of water. I'm familiar with preparation of Oldhamii and Dendrocalamus latiflorus shoots and other tropicals so i shouldn't have a problem. The tropicals i slice thinly with a knife usu...

Does anyone know if this species produces edible shoots. Its the most common and vigorous growing runner species around here. Reminds me of a miniature moso forest.

It will get quite thick the gigantea but wont thrive as much as the asper. Reason being it isn't very cold tolerant and cold temps stunt its growth. Asper however can withstand quite cold temps near to freezing and still grow huge without a problem. From what I hear asper can withstand below freezin...

I think its a Pleioblastus species

These are growing in the subtropics in quite a shaded position. The leaves have some patches on them? is this a feature of marmorea? Very interested to get an id on them. The culms in the sun had leaves much closer together.

This is a very vigorous spreader but very attractive plant with nice weeping large leaves. Grows well here in the subtropics in a semi shaded position. I have noticed two colonies growing around. What is it? to me it resembles a Chimonobambusa? thanks http://www.flickr.com/photos/96984539@N07/984796...

Ian I think the asper should be ok if they are healthy and established plants even with some freezing temps. Gigantea is more fussy even here it doesn't get no where near as large as the asper. The asper makes gigantea look small here. It grows healthy but just not large only to 20 metres or so. I h...

Thanks for posting them I wasn't sure how to do so. I just grabbed the link on flickr and inserted that between the [img][img] maybe i'm doing it wrong. Yeah the asper growing at altitude was not as large due to the cool and winters getting down to freezing point occasionally. We don't have freezing...