Fargesia Species, Borinda, Hardy Clumping Bamboo

This species has been more or less freezing to the ground each year. It seems to need less frost and less heat&drought, i.e. a maritime c...Read Morelimate. However, it refuses to disappear and comes up every year, and it is somewhat non-descript.
Krapets, Zone 8a, 10 m AMSL

This species seems only to be available by seed.

It was introduced in 2004 and there isn't consistent information availabl...Read Moree yet as to its hardiness, but some sources say it isn't hardy below 15F.

Seed purchased on eBay is likely to be incorrectly identified.

Even the name is in dispute. It's often referred to as Borinda yunnanensis.