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5' 4" Amazon Eradicates Escaped Running Bamboo [10 photos] To my horror a stalk of bamboo emerged outside of its contained area. I had to start digging at the visible shoot which was about 3 feet from the container and carefully follow the root system back to the point of escape. I was extremely careful in finding every shoot. It took 4 hours with a pick. I had to take out 4 banana trees because the bamboo had speared thru them. I found at least 20 underground shoots. Very scary. I was covered with mud afterward. My love of bamboo has eroded. Everything above was deep underground except for that one green and yellow cane on the right. Notice the massive hairy root system. I had to erode the soil with a power hose to pull the root system out.