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Well it seems a bit late for most my bamboos, but the majority of them are finally starting to send up shoots. Has a really hard winter this year, plus 4 of my bamboos dropped a majority of their new leaves near the end of April, which was really weird.

Anyways, here's a few pics of what's shooting....

Dendrocalamus validus


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Bambusa textilis gracilis


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Bambusa textilis mutabilis from a division taken in April.


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Bambusa emeiensis virdiflavus


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Looking good Scott. My textilis started shooting about 3 weeks ago, I will take some pics this weekend. My olhamii died back again over the winter. It started sending up new small shoots about 2 months ago. It grew about a dozen culms which are about the diameter of a pencil, and they're about 4 feet tall. About 2 weeks ago it started sending up a couple of shoots slightly bigger than the ones from last year. These are about 2 inches in diameter. I'll post some pics this weekend.

Yeah, my Hirose died back and has only produced what I call Spring panic shoots. Hoping to see some real shoots soon. Also noted that my Bambusa chungii barbellata has three new shoots emerging.