Bamboo Pole Sizes and Weights

Most bamboo poles will taper naturally from bottom to top - sometimes considerably - and there will be variations, even between poles of the same named size.

The walls of bamboo poles are approximately 1/4 inch thick, so the interior diameters are about 1/2 inch less than their outside diameters.

The charts below indicate the variations in approximate actual outside diameter measurements in inches of the various types of bamboo poles that available at Beautiful Bamboo.

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	Domestic Designer
	BASE	TOP
Named Size
1.5	1.5 - 1.75	1.25 - 1.5
2	2 - 2.25	1.25 - 1.75
2.5	2.25 - 2.625	1.75 - 2.5
3	2.625 - 3	2 - 2.75
3.5	3.25 - 3.5	2.625 - 3
4	3.5 - 4	3 - 3.25
5	4.75 - 5	3.75 - 4.25
6	5.5 - 6	4 - 4.5

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	Imported
	BASE	TOP
Named Size
1.5	1.25 - 1.5	1 - 1.25
2	1.625 - 2	1.25 - 1.75
3	2.5 - 3	1.5 - 2.5
4	3.5 - 4	2.5 - 3
5	4.5 - 5	3.5 - 4
6	5 - 6	3.5 - 4.5

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	Home grown
	BASE	TOP
Named Size
1.25	1 - 1.25	.75 - 1
1.5	1.25 - 1.75	1 - 1.5
2	1.75 - 2.25	1.25 - 2
3	2.5 - 3	1.5 - 2.5

-->Domestic Black Poles are only available in 1.75" diameter with a base diameter of approximately 1.5" - 2" and a top diameter of approximately 1.25" - 1.75"

For shipping purposes, we are including the below chart estimating the approximate weight in pounds of 8' and 10' long bamboo poles of various named sizes.

	approx. weight (lbs.)
	8'	10'
Named Size
1		1.5 -2
1.25	2.5 - 3
1.5		4
1.75	2.5 - 3	3 - 3.5
2	3.5	4
2.5	5
3	6	8
3.5	9	11
4	13 - 15	15 - 16
5	25	25 - 30
6	25 - 30	25 - 30

Birds and 'boo

I hung one of my bird feeders from a Blue Timber Bamboo (Bambusa chungii) cane and numerous birds have flocked there to feed.

Below are a few of the many species I've photographed against a beautiful bamboo backdrop.

One of my favorite birds - a chickadee - came for the sunflower seeds

Two cardinals - the red-feathered male in the forefront with the less showy female in the rear

Two goldfinches on the sides with a chipping sparrow in front

Two goldfinches alone.   They must have scared the chipping sparrow away

Springtime in the bamboo grove

It's spring and that means the running bamboos are shooting! New bamboo culms are emerging at an astonishing rate.

Below are three pictures of one particularly beautiful specimen - Phyllostachys vivax huangwenzhu, which we call Green-Gold Vivax Timber Bamboo.

A broad yellow vertical stripe appears on alternating culm section of Green-Gold Vivax Timber Bamboo 

This young shoot is reaching for the sky as it grows upward through a window of bamboo leaves

Looking down at a newly emerged shoot from above.  In just a few days, this relatively small shoot will tower over my head and I'll have to look up to take a picture

Wind through Bamboo

A strong wind today filled the air with music as breezes blew through a mature stand of Giant Timber Clumping Bamboo (Bambusa oldhamii) at the original sight of Beautiful Bamboo nursery.

This short video provides a sound picture of the 'clinking' and 'clacking' sounds made when bamboo canes are rustled by gusts of air.