Typical height
- 3 to 5m
- 5 to 10m
- 10 to 20m
Use
- Feature
- Privacy screening / hedging
- Pot plant
- Timber
- Edible
- Windbreak
Light Conditions
- Full sun
- Part shade
Climate
- Temperate
- Subtropical
- Tropical
Collector's Bamboo
PLEASE NOTE: This is a list of the rarer or less popular species of bamboo. Some of these species may only be available upon request (ie. we will propagate to order). We have them growing in our plantation, but not necessarily available as potted plants for immediate sale.
Since these species are not in regular production, they are more expensive. However, if significant quantities are required, then prices can be negotiated.
From $33.00
A nice garden bamboo with green culms and cream striations which age to mottled black. Though not as black as the Lako, it does have a similar appearance, only smaller.
From $44.00
Near solid culms and hence very strong timber. Very predominant side-branches on lower parts of culms.
From $22.00
Yellow culms with green striations and cream striped leaves. Being related to the Ventricosa (Buddha's Belly), this bamboo has the potential to develop the short swollen internodes, but it tends to be quite rare and only in certain growing conditions.
From $110.00
A beautiful ornamental with very small leaves which grow in clusters close to the culm. Quite rare and a must for collectors. Prefers cooler climates.
From $55.00
Produces high quality timber and edible shoots. Beautiful lush foliage.
From $55.00
Edible shoots and good quality timber. Its not a very ornamental bamboo, but the near solid culms still make it an important timber bamboo.
From $55.00
A tight clumping bamboo which has green culms with white stripes and long arching tops reaching towards the ground. If left alone, the drooping tops will form a tunnel circling the clump.
From $33.00
Straight, good quality timber. Edible shoots. This bamboo flowered gregariously in 2010 / 2011. The plants that we are selling now are grown from seeds collected.
From $55.00
Same as the atter, but with yellow striations on the culms. Good timber and edible shoots. This bamboo flowered in 2007, producing some viable seeds. The plants now sold are from these seeds.
From $44.00
This quite rare bamboo has large leaves and a branch free lower part.
From $44.00
A nice upright green ornamental.
From $44.00
Green culms with yellow striation. This particular variation has a growth habit with very weeping culms. An interesting feature plant.
From $55.00
This bamboo has great weeping culms with lush dense foliage. It's great for shade or as a large screening plant. Good timber.
From $22.00
A tidy medium sized bamboo good for screening and timber. Fast growing with lush green foliage.
From $110.00
A small open clumping bamboo. Both shoots and a pear-like seeds are edible.
From $55.00
Thin walled beauty with yellow culms and green stripes.