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| 31 March 2012 bamboo shoots |
Spring is bamboo shooting season for most temperate bamboo, and I have been looking for the first pointy shoot poking through the soil. Today I saw several beautiful bamboo shoots poking out of the ground. For the next month new shoots will appear daily. I harvested a few wayward shoots and tonight they were sauteed......
Canned Won't Do: Spring Brings Fresh Bamboo Shoots
by LAURA MCCANDLISH
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Black Bamboo shoots are poking out of the ground |
About Black Bamboo...
The Black Bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra) is an attractive bamboo, with black stems, and a running habit. Black Bamboo can grow to heights of 15 to 20 feet tall and can grow to 35 feet with 1" diameter canes. New shoots are bright green and turn black over a year and a half. A culm will grow to its full size within a month and will never grow larger. Newly planted rhizomes will produce some tiny culms the first year. Then each year the culms grow taller and have a larger diameter. New culms are very soft and can be easily cut or crushed by hand, but it will grow tougher with time.
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This is Phylostachys nigra 'Black Bamboo' |
Tom Barton: Home again: Bamboo Farm reclaims part of its past from Smithsonian
Posted: March 15, 2012
Savannah Morning News
A cool post indeed!Thanks for sharing such post.
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