Invasive Plant ID

[Dorset Treeman]

Sorry, I know that these aren't the best photos to help id but can anyone help with this invasive plant found in a shelter belt woodland next to a chalk stream in hampshire. I wondered if it was some sort of bamboo?

 

It was pretty dense in places.

 

Thanks for any help you can give.

[Andrew Gale]

It is bamboo, horrible stuff to try and clear.

[fagus]

Not deep rooted but tangled and difficult to dig out., careful you don't break your spade/shovel shafts.

[woodyguy]

Its Indocalamus tessalatus (or a close relative). They all spread rapidly and are fairly deep rooted. They don't form massive clumps that you need a mattock to get out. Nice plant.

[woodyguy]

Sorry, forgot to say that yes it is a type of bamboo!!

[Dorset Treeman]

Thanks for the help. Much appreciated.

[spudulike]

Ours went bonkers, sending shoots out all over the place, I attacked it with a FS220 brush cutter I had done up and decimated it, just got to keep hitting it with the weed killer now!

 

They start out well but then get highly invasive spreading 20" from the main plant!

[MATTMOSS]

Ours went bonkers, sending shoots out all over the place, I attacked it with a FS220 brush cutter I had done up and decimated it, just got to keep hitting it with the weed killer now!

 

They start out well but then get highly invasive spreading 20" from the main plant!

 

Hi spud, if your modified saws are anything to go by id love to see your knapsack sprayer.

I bet it sprays a twenty foot span and can pass fifteen litres in under ten seconds

[Dorset Treeman]

Problem is, this is right next to a river so I don't know how effective any herbicide approved for use near water would be at controlling this stuff.

[spandit]

It's river cane - in the right place it's great but does spread. I could do with a load here to hide a security fence