Accession Data
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
USDA Zone: 7a-10b
Accession #: 199500088
Accession Date: 1995-02-17 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 2307
Quantity: 1
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
SubFamily: Bambusoideae
Tribe: Arundinarieae
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