Found this Yellow Any Ideas? : - )

[CJ_IS_HERE]

Hi, found this a mile or o from the house. Its been there for several years now... seems very cold hardy...no damage apparent from the few weeks in the 20s we had. Yellow culms with green leaf. There are 2 clumps and they are 3-4 foot apart. I looked around and didnt see any stray culms alone hiding out. Took these pics today. It looks alot like my Robert Young. Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/C ... GP0328.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/C ... GP0329.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/C ... GP0330.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/C ... GP0332.jpg

[rfgpitt]

CJ,
Did the existing culms have a few random green stripes like Robert Young does or a random cream stripe on a few leaves? If not it could be plain vivax that has turned light from the sun.

[Roy]

How does the look of the new shoots compare to this one:

[ghmerrill]

The shoots dont look mottled enough with the dark markings for vivax. It would help to see what the culms look like.

EDIT: how about Phyllostachys glauca, or P. glauca 'yunzhu'?

[CJ_IS_HERE]

Rick, no green or cream stripes that I saw.

Roy... that looks very close to my pic above ... whats that in your pic? Vivax?

[CJ_IS_HERE]

The shoots dont look mottled enough with the dark markings for vivax. It would help to see what the culms look like.

I thought I took a few to...will go back out tomorrow and get a few more... that was the only shoot I saw too.

Thanks

[ghmerrill]

Look also for the hairs by where the leaf attaches

Vivax (the one Im sending you!)


glauca yunzhu
Sorry for the crappy pic



vivax hairs spray out, glauca points along the branch in the direction of the new leaf.

[Roy]

Rick, no green or cream stripes that I saw.

Roy... that looks very close to my pic above ... whats that in your pic? Vivax?

Since it is very widespread all over the Southeast, what about the picture of Phyllostachys aurea. That was a photo of it that I posted. They do call it "golden".

[CJ_IS_HERE]

Ok, will get better pics tomorrow. Roy arent the P. Aurea known for the compressed lower nodes as well? So the unknown yellow should resemble this correct?

My P. Aurea :
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/CJisHere/P.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/CJisHere/P-1.jpg

thanks

[Roy]

Ok, will get better pics tomorrow. Roy arent the P. Aurea known for the compressed lower nodes as well? So the unknown yellow should resemble this correct?

My P. Aurea :
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/CJisHere/P.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/CJisHere/P-1.jpg

thanks

Yes, but you can have large numbers of culms without any compressed nodes. I see Phy. aurea growing in a city lot in Sarasota, Florida and one has to a lot of searching to find one with a compress node.

[Streetman_Buddy]

In my Aurea 47 culms I just counted, It's dark, 10:00pm but I'm sure there is only one, because when I found it, I thought , it's about time. It is free to run, some is watered, some is not, and it's five years old.
Maybe someone can explain that one.
Bud

[rfgpitt]

Looks like the plants are still small, so you probably can't rely on features such as the oral setae ("hairs") or the compressed nodes. That shoot picture coupled with the fact that it's wide spread down there leads me to believe that Roy is correct.

[CJ_IS_HERE]

Thanks... P. Aurea - Golden seems to be most likely. But the dark emerging culm does not look like those I've seen ... other than the one Roy Posted. Thannks again Roy... maybe the mystery is solved.

[needmore]

Young aurea canes are generally blueish at the node after sheath fall and the nodes flare in a unique way so even without the compressed nodes one can often tell by looking at the new spring canes.

[CJ_IS_HERE]

[quote="needmore"]Young aurea canes are generally blueish at the node after sheath fall and the nodes flare in a unique way so even without the compressed nodes one can often tell by looking at the new spring canes.[/quote

Kind of like this?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/CJisHere/P.jpg