Growing Edible Bamboo in Cold Areas
I live in Central Victoria Australia and want to start growing edible bamboo. Can you please supply me with a list, if any at all, of edible bamboos which will be happy in frosts of down to -7°C? Actually this temperature is rare here but we got it once. Normally -5°C is the coldest.
There certainly are bamboos which grow here. I have a list of 4 which I did believe were edible but none of them appear on your edible list:
Phyllostachys Boryana
Phyllostachys Nigra Boryana
Bambusa Multiplex Fernleaf
Are you please able to confirm with me; are any of the above 4 bamboo species edible and to what degree? If you can suggest a list of other bamboo types which are edible and can grow here, that would also be much appreciated. Many thanks for your help.
⭐ Best Answer:
I found one source saying Bambusa textilis has edible shoots of average quality (not sure if it was reliable information though). For the other species I haven't found any indication that they are edible.
By any means Bambusa bamboos are tropical clumping bamboos whereas the genus Phyllostachys consists of temperate running bamboos. Therefore, I think the latter would be the most recommended for your particular climate conditions.
