With a macadamia photo bomb…

@Brad52 great collection! Can you name a few of them? I recognize some by sight, like Chungii (maybe Barbellata?), Dendrocalamus Minor Amoenus, Eutuldoides Viridi-Vittata, maybe Nana, Glaucophylla variegated, and I think at least one Asper.

Someone started a bamboo thread a few years ago, I added most of my collection to it here:

You’re correct on the Chungii, the D minor ‘Amoenus’ and the variegated Malay, I do have Asper, but none of them are in these photos. I’ve got the black form and the straight form. Bambusa Lako is the black one with the philodendron climbing it Gigantochloa atroviolacea is the other black one in these photos. Chusquea coronalis is the wee tiny leaf one, yellow is Sacred Bali not Eutuldoides, there is D brandsii, Schitzostachyum Murray Island is my preferred screening form - Australian native I believe, the green bushy form. What you were calling Nana was at one point sold as Nana, but that is Nana what it is - real name Thrysocalamus liang from Thailand. Wispy higher foliage with narrow culm base is T siamensis or Monastery Bamboo. Lacy leaves with black/white mottled culms is Nastus elatus, there is D sikkmensis there and some mis or un ID’d forms.

I also have several other species, not depicted here - let me know if you have questions about specific photos if I know what it is I’d be happy to tell you! Otatea acuminata I forgot to include and it has a unique sloppy grass form.

The one with terrifying thorns is a variegated Guada.

@Brad52 thanks for the IDs! I wasn't sure on the black ones. I have grown and trashed Lako (too big), D. Brandisii Black (waaaaaaaay too big), B. New Guinea Black (2" plus and open clumper) and still grow G. Malaysian Black. I also grow Textilis Purpurascens, but it's not anything really special so far. I'd like to get a relatively tight clumping small black boo, but can't find a good one under 20ft tall. How big is G. Atroviolacea?

I'm currently grkwing Nana (xThyrsocalamus Liang from Tropical Bamboo). Unforunately it was close to size of yours, but got totally burnt to the ground at 22.5F in February. It's growing back, but may take 2 more years to get back there.

I am currently using Textilis Gracilis, Albo, RG Dwarf, Subtruncata, Contracta, Doli Blue, Doli Silverstripe, Emiensis, Oldhamii Shoot Production, and Eutuldoides green form all as hedges. I haven't tried Schizostachyum due to TB's reports of damage in the 30s. But the Murray Island looks great. I like the big leaf boos in general. My issue with most of the Gigantochloa is the widely spreading tops. If I had the space the wide tops would be fine, as I also grow both Luteostriata 4776 and 4447. They just take up a lot of horizontal room! How big is the Murray Island in footprint, diameter spread at the top, and overall height?

I’m quite envious of the access you have to the species you have I really miss that, Hawaii kind of stinks for a bamboo collector. I had 130 species in Indiana and somewhere similar to that in California, Hawaii I can only get about 35 to 40 that I want it’s just not a lot of the fun stuff out here.

Atroviolacea is quite large, Murray Island is purported to remain in the 12 to 14 foot range but mine is already that height got a feeling. It might get a little bigger and it’s probably gonna be about as wide maybe not quite as wide. Great screening bamboo.

Did you notice with your not Nana that the culms are solid for maybe 10-12 feet perhaps more?