These are the bamboos I dug up from the neighborhood. I planted them in a pot. And I hope to get some affordable wood stock from these.
Also yesterday when me and dad were hiking I took a branch of manzanita which I prepared by shaving and planting with rooting hormone and fertilizer. If that goes well I will share.
Bamboo always has leaf veins that run parallel to each other like grass. The plant in the picture has branching leaf veins, so I knew it couldn’t be bamboo.
The rhyzomes will be spreading underground and sending up shoots that eventually look just like the parent plant. Picking a shoot just means getting a sprouting rhyzome. You want as much of the rhyzome as possible if you want to just transplant it (rather than more advanced propagation techniques) Best way to get them is to find someone who doesn’t want some or all of their bamboo and dig it up. It is tough cutting through the rhysomes especially any that would give you wood. An old saw can work once you’ve cleared away the dirt with a shovel.