Phyllostachys makinoi Hayata

Culms 10–20 m, 3–8 cm in diam.; internodes to 40 cm, initially thinly white powdery, glabrous, with minute holes or crystalline spots (visible under 10 × lens); wall to 1 cm thick; nodal ridge as prominent as sheath scar or slightly more so. Culm sheaths cream-colored, sometimes brown or green-brown, with dense variably sized spots, thinly white powdery or glossy, glabrous; auricles and oral setae not developed; ligule dark purple, truncate or weakly arched, fringed with long purple cilia; blade reflexed, green, with orange or green-yellow margins, narrowly triangular or linear, flat or weakly crinkled. Leaves 2 or 3 per ultimate branch; sheath glabrous; auricles and oral setae usually present; ligule arcuate, commonly eroded, purple-red ciliate; blade 8–14 × 1.5–2 cm, abaxially initially pubescent especially near petiole. Inflorescence not known. New shoots May–Jun. 2n = 48*.

It is a warm temperate plant. In Taiwan it grows from sea level to 1,550 m altitude.

The young shoots are cooked and eaten.

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.