My Dad grows bamboo as a privacy fence, and cuts it back periodically to keep it contained. (Grows wild, not sure what kind.) While cutting one day he found a really strange one, pictured below, hand for scale. Does anyone know what happened here? Also, which forum would be best to find some bamboo experts?

Weird...


Base of the weird one.


Here's what it normally looks like, over 8 ft. tall.

I don't know, but it is adorable. I wanna put oversized googly eyes on it and call it a minion.

It kind of reminds me of what happens to a left over stump when you cut down a tree... it grows like a bush out of the stump...?

@robynanne I can just imagine it with the little eyes!

Yes, maybe he cut it, and the damage caused these shoots to go a little crazy...