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Strange growth coming out of Bamboo
Dwu629
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Have a few bamboo plants growing out of pots. Noticed some strange growth coming out from several of them that I've never seen before. Anyone know what they are? Parasitic plant?
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I don't grow bamboo so my knowledge is limited, but it looks to me as if it's flowering.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Doves right that looks like flowers but that might not be good, most bamboo's die once they've flowered.
Looks like it is a flower, as treehugger states not good news I think I would take that cane right off to the bottom and see if it's stops the process.
I had 2 bamboos (of the same type) and they both flowered in the same year and then died. I read somewhere that many are clones from a single plant and all tend to flower at the same time.
I saved and planted seed from mine. It grew easily and I now have a full grown successor to the original ones, which actually cost me nothing as someone had thrown them on a rubbish heap!
It's bamboo palm, chamaedorea species. Flower's fine, I'm sure.
H-C
Pansyface, such a message of joy! Any good news?!
H-C
Thanks H-C, looked up chamaedorea, super helpful!
Thanks everything for the input!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.