The bright-green culms are beautifully marked by white circles that are located at the nodes, and the Japanese Timber Bamboo Tree was lavishly used in recent movies: "The Time Machine" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". The largest spreading bamboo offered for sale is the Japanese Timber Bamboo Tree, and will offer a beautiful and exotic oriental look for your patio. The Japanese Timber Bamboo Tree grows tall and dense, quickly forming a privacy screen for your landscape. This Bamboo Tree may produce stems to 6 in. in diameter, and in China and Japan the Japanese Timber Bamboo Tree is used in scaffolding and home construction and has become very popular in the U.S. as flooring. The gigantic poles of the Japanese Timber Bamboo tree are very handy in construction and in decorating projects, and new sprouts of the Japanese Timber Bamboo sprout from the ground suddenly in April and can grow 6 feet or more in one day, and unbelievable rate of growth. Pathways and roads bordered by Japanese Bamboo plants actually grow into trees and can be used in shading property. Farmers with pecan orchards in the South often cut Japanese Timber bamboo poles to strike the limbs of the tree to shake the nuts to the ground. When washed, the poles of the Japanese Timber Bamboo Tree are a brilliant green.