It’s spring and that means the running bamboos are shooting! New bamboo culms are emerging at an astonishing rate.
Below are three pictures of one particularly beautiful specimen – Phyllostachys vivax huangwenzhu, which we call Green-Gold Vivax Timber Bamboo.
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| A broad yellow vertical stripe appears on alternating culm section of Green-Gold Vivax Timber Bamboo |
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| This young shoot is reaching for the sky as it grows upward through a window of bamboo leaves |
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| Looking down at a newly emerged shoot from above. In just a few days, this relatively small shoot will tower over my head and I’ll have to look up to take a picture |
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