Needlepoint bamboo patterns

Three stalks of bamboo, upright: each a straight cane divided into segments by joints, with leaves.

Each cane is four or five stitches wide, and in most styles its segments are shorter near the base. The bamboo is drawn in several styles. All are four inches square on 18 mesh. Two take only four colors and are marked beginner; the canes are upright bands, steady to count.