Yep, those are the ones. If I were you, I would start my fruad case through paypal right away. two things to think about with what you got 1- you paid for what was advertised, Thamnocalamus tessalatus, but got something completely different. 2- going by the sizes of those rhizome pieces, you probalby wont get anything to survive look back in thier history, you will find my feedback for them, same handle as on here. People like that are what gives ebay buying a bad name. I had assumed after seeing the rhizome sections that they were probalby Arundinaria (river cane) as they had air canals, but figured it could also have been some other common bamboo like P. aureasulcata. on what I went with... I was actually looking for the thamno starts for potting up to use as trading material. for clumpers, I have one in the ground already, a nice division I got from Fred in CA who posts here on the forums. total for clumpers, I have a little over 30 varieties, almost all planted last year. I took about a 10 year break from collecting bamboo, then when we bought property a few years ago, moved the few I had, but had to focus the time and $$ into fencing, repairs, and that kind of stuff. about a year and a half ago I started working on the boo collection again, a few purchases, as I could, and LOTS of trades, and hit a bit over 100 types recently. by the end of this year my goal is to have 200 varieties either in ground or potted- I cobbled togeather a greenhouse, so I can tuck the plants that wont make it here in my zone away for the winter. we have an 11 acre farm, I raise birds for the pet trade- cockateils, small parrots, etc, and want to begin a small nursery opperation with the bamboo, so what I am planting now are for my display garden. in talking to folks who have been around a while in the boo biz, I am also potting up extra plants so those can be the ones I take divisions off of. I did a trade with CJ, who posts here also, and got a Yushania last year. I was able to take 4 1 gallon divisions off of it last spring, have traded all those off, so unpotted it, and it was ripe for divisions again- another 6! anyway, sorry for the long post! :)

"Green stripe bamboo" is a vague descriptive name for many bamboo, both clumping and running. I took a look at the listing and the slightly fuzzy photo looks most likely like a runner. If you could get the real species name for this bamboo it would be possible to say what it is. I can guarantee you that there are quite a few runners with green stripes, and I would tend to believe a seller who said a bamboo was a runner because many people would prefer to buy a clumper rather than a runner.

My guess is that they are the same...B. multiplex. Culms get lighter with age and they lean outward just like in your earlier posted pictures. Mine grow shorter, but are in full sun with no tall plants around them. Bamboo will grow taller if it has to 'reach' for the sky as from having close plants that are taller than itself. Mine look like the bamboo in your photos, not like the ones in the Caldwell Nursery photos, but they are most likely the same plants. Caldwell Nursery's culms seem to grow more crooked and a bit thinner than mine, but that can be due to many different factors. I have several textilis plants in the ground, and all look alike except one that I planted out at our place in the country. It gets no care other than when I remove the dead culms. It grows thinner culms that are more spaced out, it grows shorter, and has lighter and fewer leaves than clones planted from the same original clump. At first glance, and if I didn't plant it myself, I would think that it is a totally different bamboo. So remember, they will not always grow identical to the 'mother' plant. Anyway, it is always great to find some free bamboo, especially a clumper, but they are much harder to dig since the culms are much closer together. Dig as much as you can...you can always sell/trade the rest. Good Luck Kt

I'm pretty sure that Textilis, Buddah Belly would both be killed back to the ground before Christmas each year anywhere in Ohio. This annual whacking keeps them very tiny. I'm in southern Indiana and planted out some Buddah Belly 4 years ago as I was tired of them as huge houseplants and curious how many years they'd come back before finally dying off. They were planted as 25 gallon pots with canes about 15 feet tall. They usually are killed back by the first temp in the teens in November. The 3 springs after planting them they still produced new canes in May but are now about 3 feet tall at best. Curious to see if they come back a 4th time, already killed back again this year.