Generally speaking, I agree. There are an incredibly diverse selection of bamboos that can be chosen from but they all share the same properties of root propagation. Even if you retard the upstairs, give the roots the slightest chance they are going to spread, almost indefinitely if the environment permits.
Nice. I'll have to pass that along. I do have sulfuric acid but I don't know if I could talk someone into buying that much of it lol.
If you buy it at a commercial chemical supply house in quantity it's cheap. Around here, Thailand, about $15 for 50kg. It is also a weird way to restrict plants to certain locations. Very heavy, doesn't migrate readily, pH of the soil is predictable, organic, non polluting, selectively herbicidal by application control and predictably biodegrading. Unfortunately, some righteously evil stuff to handle and work with. A pH meter is mandatory if using it in terrariums or animal enclosures.
Thank you. It sounds like you two have saved me a lot of grief.
Not quite, I think they're corms that grow on one species of sedge.
I have to admit now that I don't know the difference between bamboo shoot taste and water chestnut taste. For some years now I thought bamboo shoots were water chestnuts, I have no idea how that happened but I may try to find the water chestnut plant and grow it, I like it also, probably easy to grow, lots of water.Not quite, I think they're corms that grow on one species of sedge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleocharis_dulcis
However, Chinese cuisine does also have chopped young bamboo shoots (at least the relatively little I've been exposed to). I rather enjoy them, although not as much as water chestnut, which is one of my favorite vegetables.
There is one, or maybe more, bamboo varietal that only grows 2" to 4" tall. More like it's lawn cousin but with the distinctive bamboo leaf. It is used as an ornamental, I think primarily in Japan. It is a cold lover, not minding snow. I've always wondered if it could be trained into miniature, even terrarium anvirons.