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Propagation

Apart from seed, which is scarce as flowering of Bamboos is very rare, the only method is division. With some of the rarer species being dense in habit, it is obvious that the rarity will continue because of the slow and limiting process of division at the root.

Division of thin, juvenile plants is more rewarding than taking an axe to an ancient specimen with thick growth and it is often wiser to purchase a plant with juvenile growth as it will establish better in the average garden.

Division of older mature culms only results in young juvenile growth. Mature culms are produced more quickly from juvenile plants. Some of the more invasive types will produce readily from rhizome and bud sections and it is possible, with more luck than judgement, to layer canes.