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Bambusa dolichomerithalla 'Green Stripe' (Green Stripe Blowgun Bamboo) - An attractive upright medium-sized clumping bamboo that can grow to about 30 feet tall with 1 1/2- to 2-inch-wide culms. These culms emerge light green with pale dark green longitudinal lines that mature to yellow-green culms with dark green lines.
Plant in full sun and water regularly. This plant is listed by the American Bamboo Society as requiring full sun and being hardy only to 25 F. but we also note that Bamboo Sorcery, the Santa Rosa California Bamboo nursery founded by the legendary Gerald Bol, lists the plant as growing in part sun and tolerating temperatures as low as 16°F.
This species was introduced into the US in 1980 from Taiwan where it is used in craftwork and with its long straight culms with 2 feet between internodes was a favorite for making blowguns. The name for the genus comes from the Dutch word 'bamboes' or 'bamboo' that was a modification of Malay word 'bambu' and the specific epithet seems to be from the Greek words 'dolicho' meaning "abnormally long" or "narrow" and 'thallus' meaning "stem" or "shoot" with the connecting word 'meridies' meaning middle. We grew this plant that we got from Abe Nursery in Carpinteria from 2008 until 2015.
The information displayed on this page about Bambusa dolichomerithalla 'Green Stripe' is based on our research conducted about this plant from books in our nursery library as well as from information that is provided by reliable online resources. We also have included our own observations made about it as it grew in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers when we had them in our nursery field. We also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.
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