Plieoblastus ________? Or something else?

[madman]

Hello,

Had a customer from out of town bring in a cutting off a bamboo plant in their yard. What I could get was that it was a 10 -12 ft, I saw a photo of a dense hedge from a cell phone camera. Culm diameter is maybe .25 to .3 inches. I kept the cutting and took a photo of the leaves.

I thought maybe this was a Plieoblastus (like a chino) but I'm having my doubts.

Any assistance in identification of this variety is appreciated.

Sean

[philippe smets]

it doesn't look like pleioblastus leaves to me

[madman]

If this helps, the leaves are 6 inches long and three quarters of an inch wide. Thanks again for your help.

Sean

[needmore]

Do you have a picture of the overall clump. that branch cutting is not much to go on. It suggests a Phyllostachys and if it is a mature planting that has stayed small and not through poor site conditions, it would narrow the list of suspects.

I'm not really sure about this but it looks like the branchlets come off at an upward angle, something that brings 3 Phy. species to my mind - Heteroclada solid or straightstem, Stimulosa, or Harbin maybe there are others. If that trait is indeed present and the size is small then Harbin would be a suspect but those culms would be so unique that it would be easy to check, plus the leaf shape doesn't look right for Harbin.

But I'm just spittin' in 'da wind anyway so more info would be helpful.