The young luxuriant red-veined leaves can be eaten like spinach and the dark red
and arranged spirally around the twig
Flowers are cream with yellow stamens and green bracts
Handmade sheets are produced which are air dried
Ideal for arbors
Giant Bamboo - Bambusa arundinacea - 10 Seeds Plant Markers The young luxuriant red-veined leavesTall 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