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Phyllostachys
violescens - The combination
of very early shooting and weak cold tolerance may keep this bamboo from
being a reliable zone 6 species. Some clones are very colorful - with yellow/cream
vertical stripes or dark purple/brown vertical bands on the culms. Mine
is green thus far. The one in the photo below has been container grown to
this size and has not yet endured an Indiana winter. Voles destroyed a smaller
plant that was put out in 2006. My plant tends to have curled leaves
one of several traits suggesting that Violescens
may actually be a form of Phyllostachys praecox. This
plant has displayed great vigor having arrived as a small mail order plant
in the spring of 2006, quickly up-potted to a 15 gallon container and then
producing the 8-10 foot culms in the following spring of 2007. |
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