Common name: Black Bamboo
Family: Poaceae
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Country of Origin: southern China
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
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USDA Zone: 7a-10b
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- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: commelinids
- Order: Poales
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- Family: Poaceae
- SubFamily: Bambusoideae
- Tribe: Arundinarieae
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