Bamboo Nursery
Phyllostachys nigra - Black Bambooo
One of my most popular bamboos. The canes start out green and over several months they turn dark black. During the process of turning the canes have a beautiful, green and black mottled appearance. This bambo seems to vary greatly in size depending on where it's planted. I have a grove beside my pond with 2 inch canes while another grove at the top of a hill in poor soil has no canes over about and inch in diameter. They are the same black bamboo clone and planted about the same time, roughly 10 years ago.
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small grove of Black Bamboo
A
grove of P.nigra that has been "groomed" to show
the canes better.
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new shoot of Black Bamboo
New
canes of P.nigra start out green and turn black over the course of several
months. These are still in the process of turning.