phyllostachys lutea

[artie]

Touring the Dallas Arboretum yesterday, I was admiring the groves of what I believed to be golden bamboo, or phyllostachys aurea. Much to my surprise, I found a solitary identification marker labeled "Bamboo - phyllostachys lutea." On closer look, I found none of aurea's characteristic short, 'hand-grip' nodes at the base of any of the culms. Most of the culms were 2" diameter or less and as tall as 25 or 30 feet at most.

Having spent some time reading the ABS species list, the species 'lutea' did not sound familiar, and I don't find the species "lutea" on the ABS site anywhere. A google search for "phyllostachys lutea" returned only three hits; two from a French site and one from what might be a New Zealand site.

Anyone familiar with this nomenclature?

Artie

[Markj]

Hi-

From memory, I think there's a form of Phyllostachys edulis that carries or more likely used to carry that name, quite a nice colouration as well but haven't come across one for sale

I doubt it's this though as the variegation would be quite noticeable - yellow sulcus if I remember right

Never heard of a straight Ph. lutea either...

[philippe smets]

could it be this one ? the arcana luteosulcata


http://www.bambus-lexikon.de/arcana-luteosulcata.html


philippe

[Markj]

A little extra info pinched from the web LOL...



Phyllostachys edulis 'Lutea'
9 Taxonomic and nomenclatural references:
Phyllostachys pubescens 'Aurea'; Stover, Bamb.
Book, 1983: 54, "P. p. Aurea", invalid
Phyllostachys heterocycla f. holochrysa Muroi & K.
Kasahara in J. Himeji Gakuin Wom. Coll. no. 1,
1974: 4, invalid (without type), Jap. name: C)gonm6s&
Phyllostachys pubescens f. holochrysa (MuroJ & K.
Kasahara) Wen in J. Bamb. Res. 10 (1), 1991 :
23; Wen, Col. III. Bamb. China, 1993:188
Phyllostachys heterocycla 'Holochrysa'; Muroi & K.
Kasahara; cf. H. Okamura & u Tanaka, Hort.
Bamb. Sp. Jap., 1986: 19, as syn.
Phyllostachys edulis f. holochrysa (MuroJ & K. Kasahara)
Ohrnberger in Bambus-Brief no. 2, 1990:
18, invalid (basionym not validly published)
Phyllostachys pubescens f. lutea Wen in Bull. Bot.
Res. 2 (1), 1982: 76; type: Wen TaihuJ 64412
(ZJFI)
Phyllostachys edulis f. lutea (Wen) Ohrnberger in
Bambus-Brief no. 2, 1990:18
Phyllostachys edulis 'Lutea'; Ohrnberger, Bamb.
World Phyllostachys ed. 3, 1996:66
9 Selected references: H. Okamura & Y. Tanaka,
Hort. Bamb. Sp. Jap., 1986:19
9 Common names: C)gon-m6s6 (Japanese); Huangpimaozhu
(Chinese), meaning yellow skin hairy bamboo;
Gelber Moso-Bambus (German); Golden Moso
Bamboo.
9 Distinctive characters: Culms: internodes (with
sulcus) yellow; culm sheaths yellowish. Foliage
leaves: blades occasionally with a few white stripes.
9 Horticulture: JAPAN: in cultivation in Fukuoka (Prefecture?,
on Kyushu) and Kyoto (Honshu). CHINA:
in cultivation in Zhejiang (Anji Bamboo Garden).

[artie]

could it be this one ? the arcana luteosulcata
http://www.bambus-lexikon.de/arcana-luteosulcata.html
philippe

I don't recall the yellow sulcus, but the general size and color is about the same as p. arcana luteosulcata. After reading the description of p. arcana 'half-black', it could be more a match for it.

It's interesting to me that the Arboretum would produce a rather nice looking ID marker with the exact phrase "phyllostachys lutea" I'll have to investigate this further.

Artie

[artie]

A little extra info pinched from the web LOL...
Phyllostachys edulis 'Lutea'
9 Taxonomic and nomenclatural references:

Yes, that clears it up! It is rather strange how murky the taxonomy of bamboo has become. Is there some sort of master bamboo reference that brings together all the different attempts as naming the species?

Artie

[Mackel in DFW]

Hi Artie

The bamboo grove that you speak of flowered in the seventies and lost seventy five percent of it's culms. Ask me how I know It was planted by a Texas 'tycoon' over a half of a century ago on his estate, which he later gave the deed of the property to the city of Dallas (on the shores of White Rock Lake.) He planted several trees so this is what is now the Dallas Arbortetum. Many of the non-native trees look a little ragged in the Dallas summers, and probably one of the reasons the location has never been looked at widely. This is the first grove my five year old daughter ever visited.

Regards,
Mackel in DFW