By Jaygee
United Kingdom 
My golden bamboo has 4 or 5 new fat shoots growing. Suddenly I find one has bent over at 90 degrees. This happened with last years new shoots as well. This one then turned a corner again to continue growin upright. Anyone got any ideas why this happens?
9 Jun, 2013
Answers
It's a characteristic that is regularly seen, and gives the bamboo one of its common names, 'crook-stem bamboo'. Perfectly ok.
10 Jun, 2013
Fascinating, mine hasn't done that......
10 Jun, 2013
Many thanks for replies, hadn't heard of crook stem bamboo but now I don't need to worry about it. Interesting though
10 Jun, 2013
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« Any idea what this might be ? Haven't seen anything like it before ?
Wonder if its a genetic thing?
Is it a phyllostachys?
10 Jun, 2013