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Black bamboo

emjw_13emjw_13 Posts: 3
Any ideas on why my black bamboo leaves are over producing and forming like this? Plant is in the ground and 15+ years all of the smaller potted bamboo is the same... Help and advice greatly received 

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  • cmarkrcmarkr Posts: 142
    I think I remember reading that bamboo flowers and dies and that they time flowering for the same year (I guess in a single locality) and that when this happens the wild Panda need to have food supplemented by humans because all the bamboos just die at once.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Yes flowers, then it will die.
    Here they also often flower at the same time, due to them all being clones, so expect mass Bamboo death.
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  • emjw_13emjw_13 Posts: 3
    Thanks, I've now read a couple of articles on flowering, what a shame this bamboo is exceptional. All of the pots from the same plant are reacting the same, amazing but upsetting to know its dying  :'(
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