#culms

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 12 February 2025

A large clump of Phyllostachys aurea (fish-pole bamboo, golden bamboo, yellow bamboo) makes a feature in this winter garden. The graceful bright green canes (culms) can reach 2.5-3.5m high and become yellowish with age and exposure.

Jill Raggett

[awkwardbotany]

Getting to Know a Grass - Basic Anatomy and Identification

Have you ever tried to identify a grass? Most of us who like to look at plants and learn their names will probably admit that we often give up on grasses pretty quickly, or just ignore them entirely. They aren’t the easiest plants to identify to species, and there are so many of them. Without close inspection, they can all look pretty similar. Their flowers aren’t particularly showy, and their…

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[natur-nah-dran]

withered grass culms

[drawrty]

Together alone by Swakke

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 4 March 2020

The beautiful white culms of Bambusa chungii (white bamboo, blue bamboo) usually grow 5 to 10m tall, but with favourable conditions they can reach up to 18 metres. This evergreen, clump-forming bamboo is growing in the decorative display glasshouse at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden Wisley, Surrey.

Jill Raggett

[natur-nah-dran]

Mikado

[amtrips84]

The culms of a bamboo groove... Something fascinates me about these plants... May be their unilateral symmetry or just that these are bamboos! Do you know bamboo plants have an interesting repructive cycle?!🎋🤔 #amtripsphotography #smartphoneclick #bamboo #trees #monocots #monocotyledons #culms #monoeciousplant #onetimeflowering #culms #tropicaltrees (at United Theological College, Bangalore)