Madake and Hachiku: How to Tell Japan's Two Everyday Bamboos Apart

Outside Japan, most people know these two bamboos from nursery labels. Phyllostachys bambusoides is sold as timber bamboo. Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis is sold as Henon bamboo. In Japan they are madake and hachiku, two of the three big bamboos that people have lived with for centuries, together with moso. We are a small tree care and landscape business in Mie Prefecture, central Japan. Bamboo groves are part of our everyday work, and in Mie moso, madake and hachiku sometimes grow in the...

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