Bambusa Ventricosa ‘Kimmei’ 1gal Live Plant

Bambusa Ventricosa ‘Kimmei’ is a rare variation of Buddha Belly Bamboo, Google actually has rated as the most beautiful species of bamboo out of all 16000 species! Buddha Belly Bamboo is a jack of all trades, leave plants in smaller pots to keep dwarfed for bonsai or small houseplant look, or plant directly into the ground for a max height reaching around 45ft and nearly 3″ thick! Culms are yellow with random green striations running along the entire length of the culms. Leaves have a slight and subtle striation as well featuring creme colored striations.

 

It takes great skill to achieve the highly sought after swollen “buddha belly” inner node look. This is achieved by perfecting all of the following:

You must put this plant under a great deal of stress by a combination of deprivation of water, full sun with high heat intensity and keeping this plant underpotted with tremendously aid this process. This plant must be carefully walked along the edge of life and death, only then will it develop its beautiful and unique form.

 

These 1-gal yellow buddha belly plants will come with at least one mature culm with a large amount of root mass which will include newly forming shoots. You will receive a valuable piece, divided from our professionally grown and maintained 7gal container buddha belly plants, they have been growing for over 4 years, these plants have matured enough to no longer grow any green culms, all new shoots start out yellow.** This is how you know this is not a young or newly grown plant but a valuable and mature growing plant.