Bambusa Chungii (Tropical Blue Bamboo) interred the quarantine station in the 90's after which I purchased a start from Robert Saporito of Tropical Bamboo in South Florida. Being a plant hunter collector for many years I must say this plant has an ornamental value in the top ten percent of anything I've ever grown.
This particular plant is approximately 6 years old and if you could imagine, very much neglected. It should attain 2-inch culms 20 to 30 feet in height and a spread 8 feet at 10 years of age. New shoots arrive in August with very good bluish white bloom color, hardy to 22 degrees here in South Louisiana, where only the very top is bitten by the cold.
If you could only have one plant, you would love it, because it's got da stuff you need.
