My biggest customer with a half acre of over 250 species of plants, about 2/3rds as perennials, has had one of these bamboos for about 15 years in her side yard in part-shade. It is a clump species from China that does not spread by runners or rhizomes. It has very slender culms (canes) about 0.6 inches in diameter that are of green to yellow colour. The foliage is fine-textured of small, thin leaves. It is supposed to be good to Zone 5a, but in early January 2019 there was a very sudden blast of artic air that brought the night temperature down to about -2 degrees F and the plant had great die back, but it is slowly coming back. This temperate climate bamboo is a good one that will not cause trouble by spreading wildly. There are several online bamboo nursery sites and a few specialty mail order nurseries that sell bamboo species, including this one.

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