Bamboo Species

Black bamboo is an extremely popular bamboo used a lot in decoration and light wood work. It’s also considered to be a great garden center piece as the black culms contrast beautifully with the green leaves.

Henon is a HUGE beautiful bamboo species known not only for its timber qualities, but also for its ability to form screens.

Moso is the tallest temperate bamboo plant species on earth, and there’s no mistaking it. The color of the culms are a dark green, but what makes this plant especially distinguishable are the hairs that grow on the canes.

With similar appearance to Japanese Timber Bamboo, Phyllostachys Vivax is a commonly sought after species with large dark green leaves and cream colored culms.

As fat as temperate timber bamboos go, this is the strongest and has the best woodworking and woodcraft qualities. This is an upright species that does well in wind, and snow (as long as the temperatures are above 5 F).

Phyllostachys Viridis is a quick growing timber bamboo that does best in mild to warm climates. It’s actually known for being drought hardy once matured.

Slender Crookstem is very similar to Japanese Timber Bamboo, but it doesn’t grow as tall or wide. It also has a unique feature in that the lower part of the canes sometimes have a “crook” in them.

Beautiful Bamboo has straight canes and beautiful draping foliage. Besides its beauty, the most noteworthy aspect of this bamboo, is the fact that it does so well under stress.