Giant Bamboo - Bambusa arundinacea - 10 Seeds Plant Markers Flowers are cream with yellow

Flowers are cream with yellow stamens and green bracts

Easy to grow in partial shade

The 3-5 reddish brown central spines have a darker tip and are 7-8 millimetres long

Handmade sheets are produced which are air dried

The young luxuriant red-veined leaves can be eaten like spinach and the dark red

Giant Bamboo - Bambusa arundinacea - 10 Seeds Plant Markers Flowers are cream with yellowTall woody bamboo, stems thorny, numerous, tufted, up to 40 m tall, curving at top; branches numerous, internodes 30 to 45 cm long, prominent, bearing in lower parts of stems dense half whorls of stiff, naked, horizontal branches, armed with recurved, stout spines; lowest nodes rooting; stem sheaths leathery, orange yellow when young, hairy outside, shining and ribbed inside, 30 to 45 cm long; blade triangular, glabrous, covered with a brown felt of