Schizostachyum brachycladum 'Luteum' near Jogjakarta, Java island in Indonesia.

Beautiful species with variegated yellow culms with green stripes, the large leaves have occasional cream stripes.

Verbreitungsgebiet / Distribution: Asia-tropical: Indo-China. Bali, Java; Indonesia Malesia.

Höhe / high bis / up to 8 Meter, Halmdurchmesser / diameter bis / to 4 Zentimeter.
In Kultur / cultivated in Kebun Raja Bogor = Botanical Garden Bogor (nearly Jakarta; Guangzhou, Hua'an in China

Beschreibung / Description from Kew

Following Information from Hawaiian Tropical Plant Nursery:

Striking butterscotch yellow culms with large leaves. New culms are very bright yellow but fade a little as they mature. New leaves have cream striping. Tight clumps with very straight culms. Thrives in warm humid areas of the tropics. Reaches about 45 ft. tall and 4 inches in diameter. This species blooms every year but does not die after flowering. Full sun or light shade. Best in an area protected from high winds. Does not tolerate freezing.

Verbreitungsgebiet / Distribution: Asia-tropical: Indo-China. Bali, Java; Indonesia Malesia.

Höhe / high bis / up to 8 Meter, Halmdurchmesser / diameter bis / to 4 Zentimeter.
In Kultur / cultivated in Kebun Raja Bogor = Botanical Garden Bogor (nearly Jakarta; Guangzhou, Hua'an in China

Karte des Verbreitungsgebietes /  Mape of Distribution

Beschreibung / Description from Kewhttp://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200026253

February 2012: Flower at Schizostachyum brachycladum.

Schizostachyum brachycladum f. luteum

Habitat:  Densely tufted, sympodial bamboo. Culm erect with pendulous tip, 7-15 m tall, 7-10 cm in diameter, wall 3-5 mm thick, green, bluish-green, or golden-yellow often with narrow green stripes; internodes 30-58 cm long, smooth, usually covered with scattered white hairs when young, becoming glabrous; nodes not swollen, without root primordial. Branches arising from the midculm nodes upward, at each node with a tuft of 25-30 slender subequal branches. Culm sheath rigid, 12-27 cm x 18-35 cm, long persistent, covered with light-brown tobrown hairs, junction of top of sheath with blade horizontal; blade triangular with stiff acuminate apex, 4-18 cm x 4 10 cm, erect, rigid, usually glabrous, many nerved; ligule 3 mm long, entire; auricles small, 10 mm long and 2.5 mm tall, bearing crisped bristles 4-5 mm long. Young shoots with rigid culm sheaths and hard broad blades, covered with light brown to brown hairs.

Leaves Fronds: Leaf blade lanceolate, 26-32 cm x 3.5-6 cm, hairy below, glabrous above; ligule short, entire; auricles very small, with long bristles.

Flowers: Inflorescences 16-30 cm long, consisting of dense tufts of pseudospikelets 1-3 cm apart at the nodes on the rigid distal part of a leafy branchlet; spikelet15-25 mm long, comprising 1-2 perfect florets and a rachilla extension bearing a rudimentary floret.

Fruits and Seets: Caryonopsis not known.

Distribtion: S. brachycladum is widespread in South-East Asia, occurring in Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Moluccas, Bali and Luzon, growing wild, cultivated or naturalized.

Uses: The culms of S. brachycladum are widely used, e.g. for roofs (split lengthwise as for the Toraja rice barn and traditional house in Sulawesi), water containers, handicrafts, banana props and as container for cooking glutinous rice ('lemang'). Native people in Sarawak usually use S. brachycladum culms for many purposes and if it is not available it is substituted by other thin-walled bamboos; the internodes are used for making water pipes to smoke tobacco; decorated with a pattern carved in low relief ('serobok'), also for various carved containers, for instance, the one used for holy wine served during the Gawai festival ('Garong basket'). Formerly, women in North Sulawesi made clothes from the fibres, after chewing and washing the soft inner part of the culms to extract the fibres. In Bali and Toraja (Sulawesi) the culms are used durinbg burial ceremonies. Young shoots are edible, but rather bitter. The forms with yellow culm are often cultivated as ornamentals. In Sabah this bamboo is also planted on hill slopes to prevent landslides