Culms several metres tall and to about 2.5 cm wide, tending to bend over towards the tip with age, mostly nearly solid, becoming yellowish. Leaf blades linear-lanceolate, mostly about 10 cm long and 1 m wide but variable, silvery hairy below. Sheaths usually eared, with smooth bristles and a triangular blade. Culm nodes have a white waxy bloom below them and there are numerous thin branches at each node. [B. multiplex (Lour.) Steud.]

China

var. riviereorum Maire, Chinese Goddess Bamboo, like 'Fernleaf' but with solid culms. ['Riviereorum']

Source: Spencer, R.; Aldous, D.; Stajsic, V.; McGeary, D (2005). Poaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.