Phyllostachys sulphurea (Carrière) Rivière & C.Rivière

Sulphur bamboo (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Phyllostachys

Characteristics

Culms 6–15 m, 4–10 cm in diam.; internodes green or sulfur-yellow, usually with yellow or green stripes, 20–45 cm, initially thinly white powdery, glabrous, with small holes or crystalline spots (visible under 10 × lens); wall ca. 5 mm thick; nodal ridge not prominent or nearly so at unbranched nodes in larger culms; sheath scar slightly prominent, thin. Culm sheaths yellow or yellow-brown with green veins and brown rounded or more irregular spots of various sizes, thinly white powdery, glabrous; auricles and oral setae absent; ligule green-yellow, arcuate or truncate, margin pale green or white ciliate; blade reflexed, green with orange margins, narrowly triangular to linear, weakly crinkled. Leaves 2–5 per ultimate branch; sheath subglabrous or distally puberulent; auricles and oral setae usually well developed; blade oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 5.6–13 × 1.1–2.2 cm. Inflorescence not known. New shoots May. 2n = 48*.
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A bamboo. The stems are 7-8 m tall and 3-4 cm wide. They are yellow or pale green. The leaves are sword shaped and 5-20 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. They can be striped.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination anemogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 6.0
Root system rhizome
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Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
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Fruit color -
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Not known in a truly wild state, this form arose from garden cultivation.
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It is a temperate plant.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 2-6
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-8

Usage

Uses construction environmental use material ornamental wood
Edible shoots stems
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.
Mode cuttings divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -20
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Images

Phyllostachys sulphurea unspecified picture

Distribution

Phyllostachys sulphurea world distribution map, present in China, Georgia, Italy, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:416056-1
WFO ID wfo-0000890627
COL ID 77FDR
BDTFX ID 166776
INPN ID 621288
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Synonyms

Phyllostachys aureosulcata f. sulphurea Phyllostachys viridis f. laqueata Phyllostachys viridis f. viridisulcata Phyllostachys viridis f. youngii Phyllostachys viridis f. surata Phyllostachys viridis f. houzeauana Bambusa sulfurea Bambusa sulphurea Phyllostachys sulphurea Phyllostachys villosa Phyllostachys viridis Phyllostachys chlorina Phyllostachys faberi Phyllostachys sulphurea f. houzeauana Phyllostachys sulphurea f. laqueata Phyllostachys sulphurea f. robertii Phyllostachys sulphurea f. tricolor Phyllostachys sulphurea f. viridis Phyllostachys sulphurea f. viridisulcata Phyllostachys sulphurea f. youngii Phyllostachys mitis var. sulphurea Phyllostachys reticulata var. sulphurea Phyllostachys sulphurea var. viridis Phyllostachys sulphurea var. sulphurea Phyllostachys striata var. sulphurea