ID of new growth ofOtatea Acuminata. Mexican Weeping Bamboo

I'm not familiar with the growth pattern of the O.A. This is the first new growth since I've had it, and it looks very different from the original plant.

If somone who is familiar with this beautiful bamboo, could please examine the new tall culm along with the new leaves and compare them with the shorter, older growth, I'd appreciate your comments. I'm concerned that a different type of bamboo may have been part of this clump and if so, I'd like to remove it immediately. I know each seasonal culm will be wider and taller than last year's growth, but this is excessively wider and taller!

Of course, if the new growth is actually part of the O.A. I'm delighted. The culm is so very much thicker than the original clump, and the leaves are certainly not as slender.

I did not buy the O.A., but received it as a gift so I'm not sure if another bamboo spread into the original clump from my friends garden.

Thanks. Hope someone can reassure me that its actually all Otatea Acuminata!

I cannot ID your plant, but I can say that my transplanted p. aureosulcatus had more vigorous growth its second growing season than it did during its first growing season. The second year shoots were twice the size (in heighth, and volume) of the first year growth.

-Joe

I have an O. A. growing in my yard and the new shoots looks like yours from what I can see. I do not see anything that makes me think you have another type of bamboo mixed in.

Lonny

Thnak you so much iroot and Joegee. That's certainly good news as I was concerned it could be an invasive bamboo which had to be removed immediately! I'd presumed all the O.A. culms would be reed-thin!

Another question if you dont mind: Can the O.A. be dug up and transplanted easily? Any special procedures I should follow when I do this?

Thanks very much.
Joanmary

Easily, that is relative. It can be dug up but of coarse the more of the roots you get the better it will do. I would try the transplanting the the fall so that it has time to get settled in before the summer heat.

Lonny

Ah! good point Lonny. Thanks for the info. Its as hot as hades right now! If an outside task is not done by 10am, its a matter of bathing in one's own 'glistening'! :)
Joanmary