Giant Bamboo - Bambusa arundinacea - 10 Seeds Plant Markers The 3-5 reddish brown central

The 3-5 reddish brown central spines have a darker tip and are 7-8 millimetres long

Flowers are cream with yellow stamens and green bracts

Easy to grow in partial shade

Marketed as Luffa or loofah

Handmade sheets are produced which are air dried

Giant Bamboo - Bambusa arundinacea - 10 Seeds Plant Markers The 3-5 reddish brown centralTall woody bamboo, stems thorny, numerous, tufted, up to 40 m tall, curving at top; branches numerous, internodes 30 to 45 cm long, prominent, bearing in lower parts of stems dense half whorls of stiff, naked, horizontal branches, armed with recurved, stout spines; lowest nodes rooting; stem sheaths leathery, orange yellow when young, hairy outside, shining and ribbed inside, 30 to 45 cm long; blade triangular, glabrous, covered with a brown felt of