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Dendrocalamus giganteus - a Bamboo species resident to Indian subcontinent, South China and South East Asia (live.staticflickr.com)

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[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

I planted some of this in a suburban backyard in Houston.

In five years it rivaled the height of nearby trees.

A hard frost will kill the culms, but you'll get new ones sprouting up in the spring. They grow like crazy, we had one culm put on eight inches of height in one day. =D