Need ID on strange nodal growth on what I believe is B. oldhami

[douglasperry]

Take a look at the bursting nodal branching on what I believe is
oldhami. It occurs on almost every node including the very top of the
established culm. Very strange. I ran across this in Bradenton
yesterday.

The google album will allow you to see larger images....you'll have to
copy and paste this link:

http://picasaweb.google.com/douglasperry/StrangeNodalBranchingOnOldhami?authkey=qkp0EUiT0OA

Any ideas as to what's going on and whether this is B. oldhami or some
variant?

-doug

[Roy Rogers]

Doug,

Looks to be B. oldhamii to me. As far as what is going on with the branch
buds, I haven't a clue. I've never seen anything like that before. Very
interesting.

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Roy Rogers (Tampa, Florida, USA)

[john rogers]

Maybe this is oldhamii's first public attempt at flowering and this is the phyto arousal stage.  Or...it's a non lethal hormonal disturbance caused by herbicide contamination.

> Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 10:49:31 -0700

> Subject: Need ID on strange nodal growth on what I believe is B. oldhami
> From: dougla...@gmail.com
> To: Florida...@googlegroups.com

[hermine©]

At 10:49 AM 5/17/2008, you wrote:

>Take a look at the bursting nodal branching on what I believe is
>oldhami. It occurs on almost every node including the very top of the
>established culm. Very strange. I ran across this in Bradenton
>yesterday.

is this on a single culm in a grove, or does it occur throughout the grove?

hermine

[hermine©]

>
>Looks to be B. oldhamii to me. As far as what is going on with the branch
>buds, I haven't a clue. I've never seen anything like that before. Very
>interesting.

nor have I.
is there a chance some chemicals came in contact with this planting?

hermine

[Doug Perry]

It's on just about every node...and this is the only stand of bamboo on the property...and only on the largest of the 4 or 5 culms.  I'm trying to get some more information on the background of the bamboo (the owners of the property don't know anything about it-only that it may have originated from Hawaii).

-doug

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[hermine©]

At 01:38 PM 5/17/2008, you wrote:
>It's on just about every node...and this is the only stand of bamboo
>on the property...and only on the largest of the 4 or 5 culms. I'm
>trying to get some more information on the background of the bamboo
>(the owners of the property don't know anything about it-only that
>it may have originated from Hawaii).

welp, it LOOKS like oldhamii, and if I sound at all hesitant, it is
because in photographing our own bamboo, sometimes one looks very
much like another in the landscape shot, whereas in real life, the
differences are apparent....I guess what i mean is a photo of a well
established grove of giant clumping green bamboo from a wee distance,
looks like a "generic" bamboo, clumping and green, and all we can
make is the obvious guess. is there any other bamboo growing near
this? any other clumping green bamboo, or is this isolated by
distance and watering systems from any such other planting.

I have seen some fairly ODD things happen when plants got a dose of
chemical, agricultural or runnoff from laundry, YOU NAME IT.
temporary variegation, and even cresting (in dicots). the one thing I
am sure is that i have seen this kind of thing, (guessing) on
silverstripe at our nursery some five years ago, and then it just
stopped. nothing came of it and no chemicals were near the plants. my
first thought was flowering. a pre flowering condition.

I am gonna make roger look at this as soon as he has heatstroke and
comes back into the house.

we are building greenhouses and G-d pulled the switch, suddenly
raising the day temps thirty degrees. so there is a frenzy of
shadecloth installation taking place.

hermine

[hermine©]

it looks like a CRESTING of the branch complement. i seldom if ever
see true crests on monocots, tho not for want of looking! but that is
my best guess.

roger says it dunna look like flowering either.

hermine

[Doug Perry]

It's the only clump around...but it's growing close to a dry, slanted bank of what used to be a much deeper stream.
It is quite possible that at some point it got a dose of something.  I'll be checking into it.  If the soil is contaminated, they'll want to know.

-doug

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