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Accession Data:

Phyllostachys nigra 'Hale' Lodd ex Lindl.

  • Common Name: Black Bamboo
  • Family: Poaceae Barnh.

  • Country of Origin: southern China
  • Habitat: Fertile and moist places, also by streams

  • Description: syn - Bambusa nigra. Graceful black-culmed bamboo to 8m high and 3-5cm thick, green at first later speckled, then all black; slim branchlets with small leaves commonly 8 cm long, culm sheaths greenish to buff; thin-walled; hardy to about Norfolk, VA, and where temperatures do not go below about -20C. Sub-tropic to warm temperate
  • USDA Zone: 7a-10b

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199500088
  • Source:
  • Accession Date: 02-17-1995
  • Bench: 2307 - Eurasia - Low
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 07-07-2024

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Liliopsida
  • SubClass: commelinids
  • Order: Poales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Poaceae
  • SubFamily: Bambusoideae
  • Tribe: Arundinarieae
  • SubTribe:

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References (external):

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