The young luxuriant red-veined leaves can be eaten like spinach and the dark red
from cream to deep scarlet
features very showy coral to scarlet buds which open to pendulous salmon flowers in the spring
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