Curvy bamboo

Not all bamboo is straight!  Here is a curvy bamboo in Kyoto at a sightseeing area called Arashimaya in November 2008.   I thought it was fake, but my Japanese friend assured me that it was real.  

"It is curved like a tortoise shell," she said.

Kiko-chiku in Japanese--internodes at stem base are suppressed until 3 feet high.  Phyllostachys herterocycla