Featuring brightly striped canes of yellow and green this bamboo makes an excellent centerpiece and conversation piece not to mention an amazingly beautiful hedge or screen.
Bambusa multiplex alphonse karr bamboo.
Branches from base of plant to top creating a dense screen.
The culms of the alphonse karr bamboo are not green but yellow with a bright stripe of green down the middle.
Graceful inch wide canes reach from 10 to 30 feet tall and exhibit highly variable green stripes over a yellow or pink blushing base.
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Culms are yellow striped with green and reach a diameter of about 1 2 to 1.
Gold bamboo bambusa multiplex alphonse karr alphonse karr is a small golden bamboo perfect as an ornamental feature or a light privacy screen in garden beds or pots and troughs.
Wide 5 cm with random green stripes and panel.
It like other forms of bambusa multiplex are among the best bamboos for a well lit area indoors.
The alphonse karr bamboo is a medium sized clumping variety as its culms stems grow in a compact symmetrical circle because of its short closely spaced rhizomes.
Young shoots emerging from the ground are tinged with pink.
Tolerance of full sun makes it versatile though the canes will show significant die back in the winter if exposed to temperature colder than 20 f.
Attractive stems are brilliantly striped green on yellow with new growth pinkish and green.
This is mainly due to the plant s great adaptability versatility and beautiful attributes.
Alphonse karr bamboo is the most colorful of all the multiplex cultivars in existence and likes to show off its bright yellow culms with irregular dark green stripes.
A sought after selection bambusa multiplex alphonse karr bamboo is a medium sized evergreen bamboo with tall upright bright golden yellow canes up to 2 in.
When exposed to bright sunlight the golden color of the culms turns orange red becoming a deeper golden yellow with age.
Alphonse karr is commonly considered a collector s bamboo.
Can reach 30 tall in central florida according to robert saporito of tropical bamboo near palm beach.
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Alphonse karr bambusa multiplex alphonse karr bamboo grows to 20 feet with 1 inch culms canes and is cold hardy to 15 degrees.
But farther south it develops serious problems with sooty mold.
Bambusa multiplex alphonse karr sku 1136 clumping bamboo great for hedges or tall screens.
This bamboo makes a wonderful container plant.
It has beautiful green and gold striped culms with attractive bushy green foliage.