Bamboo is a giant woody grass, and like other grasses, it comes in running and clumping varieties. Running bamboo has very long underground rhizomes, and follows moisture. Clumping bamboo has short rhizomes and grows in one defined area, sometimes like a tree with many trunks. In other words, clumping bamboo does not spread, while running bamboo is more likely to; though here in the desert, running bamboo doesn't tend to roam very far, due to the hard, dry soil. You can therefore control where your runner grows by only providing water and good soil in a specific area. Our inventory is ever changing; please inquire via phone or email to check availability of these and other species. Click the arrows to see more pictures of each species and click on the photos to enlarge!