PHYLLOSTACHYS FLEXUOSA

 

12' height, Sun, 0 degrees F Minimum, Runner.

Zigzag Bamboo.

        Tim Meier in Wilmette, Illinois has a heavily mulched plant that usually keeps its leaves down to -25 degrees F. David Andrews reports plant is evergreen to 3 degrees & major culm damage at -8 degrees F. Culms seem flexible & produce arching masses of foliage.  Canes often grow in a zig-zag manner.  Edible shoots.  Our plants all went to seed & died in 1996.

        WW3 - "Yo dope-smoking jerks think zigzags are fo rollin tiny non-cool brain-smashin cigarettes.  Lemme lay a home truth on yo, bro.  Dis stuff be very good in spots like Harlem cause the dudes there like to be cool. Yo dig? Harlem be one cool place.  For that reason alone, bro, it's well worth consideration for any Bamboo project in the cooler portions of the United States or Canada.  An all dat ziggin an zaggin looks pretty.  Yo needs some real bad!

        Introduced into the U.S. from China in 1864.