Accession Data

Phyllostachys nigra 'Hale'

Common Name: Black Bamboo

Family: Poaceae

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

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 7a-10b

Accession #: 199500088

Accession Date: 1995-02-17 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2307

Quantity: 1

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Poales

Family: Poaceae

SubFamily: Bambusoideae

Tribe: Arundinarieae

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Phyllostachys nigra 'Hale'