Like junipers, bamboos have gotten a bad reputation from only a few of their problematic specie. Many of the traditional running bamboos really are too aggressively invasive. However, there are many clumping bamboos that are much more adaptable to confined and refined garden areas. Even these complaisant bamboos remain uncommon though, both because of the unpopularity of bamboos, and because they are not so easily produced.
Mexican weeping bamboo, Otatea acuminata aztecorum, is certainly one of the more interesting of these clumping bamboos. Their limber inch and half wide stems are not nearly as rigid as those of most other bamboos are, and may bend down to the ground under the weight of their abundant and remarkably finely textured foliage. The four or five inch long leaves may be only an eighth of an inch wide. Both the stems and foliage move nicely in even slight breezes.
Established plants are somewhat resilient to neglect, but can get rather yellowish and will likely stay less than ten feet tall without regular watering. With regular watering and monthly application of nitrogen fertilizer, such as lawn fertilizer, during warm weather, they can get twice as tall. Old canes should be pruned to the ground as they begin to deteriorate. There should be plenty of fresh new stems to replace them.
Tony Tomeo 
It’s such an interesting and beautiful plant. But many years ago I mistakenly planted running bamboo and it………ohhh, ran!
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Was it golden bamboo? That is the species that gives all bamboo a bad reputation, but years ago, was somehow the most common.
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Maybe, IDK. It got to be 20′ tall and canes were 1″+ thick and was beautiful. I enjoyed it in the snow and the rain and to listen to the sounds when it blew in the wind was magical. Until it wasn”t magical, cos it started going EVERYwhere. Running is the operant word there.
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Well, that sounds like golden bamboo. It is pretty wicked stuff!
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Oh it was. They dug up a huge patch of yard to remove roots. I had small shooters over another big area for 4 years after that. It is an amazing plant.
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The roots are not the problem. The STOLONS are the wicked part! They get into the weirdest places, and can survive for years without foliage.
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Oh yea, they were everywhere but I just called that all roots. Underground running shoots that have a name, ok.
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You may find this to be amusing.
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I remember reading that around the time I was wrestling with my bamboo and it was funny!
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