YELLOW GROOVE BAMBOO  

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This bamboo has larger culms (a cane of bamboo) than aurea at a 2.5" diameter.
A green cultivar with a distinctive yellow groove.
This species is very cold tolerant to -10 degrees F.

yellow groove with crook     yellow groove bamboo with large crook

Random zigzag culms appear pale green in full sun.