Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) - 20 seeds

Phyllostachys edulis, is a botanical species of the genus Bamboo Phyllostachys known as moso bamboo or '' winter bamboo. It is a species of bamboo resistant to -20 ° C.

This bamboo appreciates the sun, a fertile and not too dry soil; These parameters as well as the temperature determine their dimensions, will resist in bad conditions but without reaching the usual proportions in their country of origin. Its size is around 15 to 28 m.The buds are edible coming out in April, the walls of young shoot shoots resembling the plum tree trunks, and develop at a remarkable rate of 5 to 10 dm a day, during the peak of the growth period. 

Sowing:

Soak seeds and sow in universal substrate.

Do not cover too much and keep the soil loose.

You have to be careful about watering too much.

Germination: 30-90 days

Germination temperature: 20-25ºC  

Synonymy

• Bambos moosoo Siebold
• Bambusa heterocycla Carrière
• Bambusa mitis Carrière
• Bambusa pubescens Carrière1
• Phyllostachys bicolor Crouzet
• Phyllostachys heterocycla (Carrière) Matsum.
• Phyllostachys heterocycla (Carrière) Mitford
• Phyllostachys mitis var. heterocycla (Carrière) Makino
• Phyllostachys tubaeformiis (S.Y. Wang) D. Ohrnberger