More on unknown clumper

[Brian_K]

Here's a couple more pieces to the puzzle:
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Second shot taken 5 days ago, the first was taken today.
Culms and culm sheaths are covered with tiny hairs.

[mantis]

A totally uneducated guess, but the leaves look like a Dendrocalamus.

edit: or a Gigantochloa.

[pld5000]

I'll take a stab at it. Bambusa atra

[Roy]

I'll take a stab at it. Bambusa atra

Nah, the leaves are different, but at least you had to culms to

Is the mystery plant a seedling?

Bambusa atra

[mantis]

Honestly, after looking in the photos section my guess is G. apus.

Edit: I'm wrong. I have this mystery plant too... If I were to put $5 on it I'd bet it is D. yunnanicus. Well, at least mine is.

[Brian_K]

Yes its a seedling, not even a year old.
1. Culms and leaves are hairy
2. It has auricles
3. The leaves are not shiny and kind of ruffled.

[mantis]

Is the mystery plant a seedling?

B-I-N-G-O and Bingo was his name-o.


This is the same seedling that a lot of us got here that was told to be B. lako. It most definitely is NOT B. lako, but right now it is putting up a lot of energy... 3 shoots in the last week, and one shoot that is 3 days old is already 3' tall. It is definitely a prolific grower... faster shoot growth than any other boo I have.

I am enjoying this ID search a lot more than my B. textilis/tuldoides mess, since this one was a mystery from the get-go, and I didn't buy it under false pretenses.

I'll take some new pictures of mine this weekend to add to the thread.

[Brian_K]

All of my B. lako and D. asper bamboo turned out to be the same species, this one is different however. The seeds of B. lako and D. asper were identical. Those seedlings have smooth culms and smaller leaves and lack auricles. Guessing D. strictus.

Maybe its Dendrocalamus sikkimensis? Don't have a shot of its leaves but the one photo showed flowering so perhaps thats what I got. It also says it has auricles, although I thought no Dendrocalamus had auricles. Are there any other Dendrocalamus with hairy auricles?

[Roy]

All of my B. lako and D. asper bamboo turned out to be the same species, this one is different however. The seeds of B. lako and D. asper were identical. Those seedlings have smooth culms and smaller leaves and lack auricles. Guessing D. strictus.

Maybe its Dendrocalamus sikkimensis? Don't have a shot of its leaves but the one photo showed flowering so perhaps thats what I got. It also says it has auricles, although I thought no Dendrocalamus had auricles. Are there any other Dendrocalamus with hairy auricles?

I would have to see what the (hairy) auricles look like to make a comparison. Here's a close up of my D. asper and there is some hairy stuff there:

[Thuja]

I have an alleged D. strictus seedling that looks very similar to yours. It has very slight auricles/setae...
<img src="http://www.bambooweb.info/images/bamboo ... loseup.jpg" alt="Dendrocalamus strictus setae">
The seeds...
<img src="http://www.bambooweb.info/images/bamboo/seeds.jpg" alt="Dendrocalamus strictus seeds">
The leaves and culms are very furry on this plant.

[Thuja]

Here's another picture of it...
<img src="http://www.bambooweb.info/images/bamboo/Ds_blade720.jpg" alt="Dendrocalamus strictus blade">

[Roy]

Richard Waldron brought back from Asia some seeds he said were D. strictus and they looked plump like these. Of course other Dendro's seeds may also be plump.

<img src="http://www.bambooweb.info/images/bamboo/seeds.jpg" alt="Dendrocalamus strictus seeds">

[boonut]

First thing I thought when I looked at it was the "perhaps" strictus seedlings...

I have D. Yunnanicus and that is not it. Very similar picture however, to my Yunnanicus. Yunnanicus has huge leaves. Mine keep getting larger. I have some of the seedlings that came from various places with the larger leaves... but, looked identical to my younger D. Strictus. I have a more mature D. Strictus in the ground and it put up very different culm shoots this year after all the rain. Normally the hair on the culm sheaths is white... this year, they were black and about 3 inches.

Here is a picture of my yunnanicus from last year.



Here is a close up of a new shoot and culm sheath:

[Bamboo Outlaw]

Several years back Richard Waldron brought some seeds to Texas. He called them Mutabilis. Has anyone heard mention of these or get any?

[Brian_K]

Here are the two seedlings side by side:
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On your left - D. strictus
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Notice the leaf sheaths are without hairs and the leaves are spaced sorta far apart. Also the culms are smooth to the touch.
On the right - D. ????
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The leaf sheaths have auricles and hair. But upon closer inspection, the culm sheaths near the bottom of the culms have very small or non-existant auricles. I was mistaking hairy ligules for hairy auricles.
So I would guess maybe D. jianshuiensis, barbatus, or sikkimensis.