A BEAUTIFUL BAMBOO.
The strikingly handsome Arunrlinaria auricoma is never quite so beautiful as it i“ hiring the later summer and autumn, for its foliage is then nt its fullest and beat. This is a Japanese species of about 4ft in height, with dark mirplish stems and an abundant foliage, the loaves being from lin to 6in in length and up to lin broad The most remarkable feature about the plant is the leaf colour, this being a, fresh 'Teen, conspicuously striped with yellow. In some instances the loaves, which aie silky when young, may be almost entirely devoid of green, but the two colours are usually about evenly divided and arranged either in broad or thin lines or in both. Though it is inclined to spread by suckers in some soils, A. auricoma can generally be trusted to behave in this way with much more moderation than many of its kintired. It does not insist on anything bettor than ordinary, moist, well drained soil, and will often thrive for years in woodland loam that is anything but damp in full summer. A. auricoma is, moreover. » fairly hardy species and one that may lie tried wherever A. japonica (Motako) will thrive.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19009, 3 November 1923, Page 3
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201A BEAUTIFUL BAMBOO. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19009, 3 November 1923, Page 3
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