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harveyc
07-05-2010, 01:40 AM
I don't know much about bamboo. I saw this variegated bamboo today in Sacramento County (USDA hardiness zone 9b, Sunset zone 14). Anybody have an idea what variety this might be? (Photo taken with my phone)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=33728 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=33636&ppuser=775)
cherokee_greg
07-05-2010, 01:54 AM
very nice I never saw this one
the flying dutchman
07-05-2010, 03:39 AM
It looks like "Arundo Donax" to me. The variegated form. Not a Bamboo.
I could be mistaken though???
Ron...
Dean W.
07-05-2010, 06:04 AM
It looks like "Arundo Donax" to me. The variegated form. Not a Bamboo.
I could be mistaken though???
Ron...
Ron, is correct. As far as I know it's a native of the Mediterranean region. Has become an invasive plant in other parts of the world.
the flying dutchman
07-05-2010, 10:01 AM
There is also a pure green form, it's quite hardy and certainly in CA.
It's related to sugarcane as far as I know. It's not so invasive, i have
grown it and it forms a clump, you need no barrier..
Someone overhere grows it in his pond in the water.
Ron...
harveyc
07-05-2010, 10:35 AM
Thanks, guys, that looks like what it is. I read that it can be invasive in warmer regions as it self sows from seed. Though it reportedly prefers water, I found it growing in a non-irrigated bed of a parking lot which was quite dry.
jjjankovsky
07-05-2010, 05:58 PM
we find those 'cheep thrills' here in the tropics and need to be very carefull...they might just like it here!...
SoBe Musa
09-22-2010, 12:09 AM
I couldn't fine other threat for Bamboo Id ...My Is also variegated bamboo...I think..!!
Can anybody id?
Thanks
Emily
http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz77/SoBe_Musa/IMG_1302.jpg
http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz77/SoBe_Musa/IMG_1300.jpg
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