![]() Hardiness zones: 7-10, with some reports of the plants being hardy to zone 6 In 2016 Only oso USA initiated large scale commercial farming of Phyllostachys edulis in the United States, in the state of Florida, becoming the first entity to grow Moso bamboo from seedlings in large scale in the USA, including the development of nurseries to ensure a constant supply of viable plants for bamboo farmers. The first culm from a seedling will not get much taller than a few inches at most, but with every new season of culms sent up from developing rhizomes, the grove of plants will grow in height and cane diameter. rather than synchronous blooming as in some other bamboos. edulis also flowers and produces seed, and it does so every half century or so, but it has a sporadic flowering nature and there are always a few individual plants in flower somewhere. In mature individuals, the culms in young plants grow taller and wider in diameter as the general plant reaches maturity, but once the individual culm stops growing it will not grow again. The culms grow quickly and reach a height of 90 ft or more (depending on the age and health of the plant). This particular species of bamboo is the most common species used in the bamboo textile industry of China which is rayon. ![]() The edulis part of the Latin name refers to its edible shoots.This bamboo can reach heights of up to 28 m (92 ft). ![]() ![]() Phyllostachys edulis, moso bamboo, or tortoise-shell bamboo, or mao zhu, is a temperate species of giant timber bamboo native to China and Taiwan and naturalised elsewhere. ![]()
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