Please Identify

[jordanM]

Would someone please identify what kind of bamboo this is:









Thanks i would greatly appreciate it.

[ghmerrill]

looks like a Pleoblastus of some sort. As to the exact species, I cant tell.

[jordanM]

About how tall do the Pleoblastus species usually get?

[David]

Jordon,
It looks like a phyllostachys that's been topped repeatedly. I have a vivax that looks similar to that. I'd guess bissetii.
David

[ghmerrill]

from a few inches to several feet....

thats a huge group of plants! I am not familiar with all of them, so I cant ID the plant in your photos for sure, and it looks like it is still small, so that makes ID hard or impossible also.

[jordanM]

Jordon,
It looks like a phyllostachys that's been topped repeatedly. I have a vivax that looks similar to that. I'd guess bissetii.
David

Well if it is bisetti, doesnt that grow in my zone 5?

[Spectabilis]

That is true Bissetti should grow well in our zone! I have not yet picked up one of those. I should do that this year.

[David]

Jordon , Where did you find this plant? Where is it growing? Is that your hand in the picture?
David

[jordanM]

Someone i know, knows someone that has this plant growing in Arkansas zone 7. No it is not my hand in the picture.

What are you thinking David?

[Spectabilis]

Those are some long fingernails!!!

[David]

Jordan,
If the bamboo was growing near you then it would have to be something hardy, and would narrow the possible IDs, and be a good choice for you to grow.
I asked about the hand in the picture because I had assumed you were a young man (deer hunting and such), and the hand in the picture appears to be female. Not that there's anything wrong with a woman bow hunting, but I would have been surprised if it had been your hand.

David

[jordanM]

Sorry to diasappoint you david i know you really wanted that to be my hand.