Alcea rosea 'Nigra' (Hollyhock 'Nigra')
'Nigra' is an upright biennial or short-lived perennial with rounded, lobed, rough, mid- to dark green leaves and long, terminal racemes of large, dark maroon flowers in summer.
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0.75m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Other names: Black crowberry, Black-berried heath, Blackberry heath, Crakeberry, Crauberry, Crawberry, Crow pea, Curlew berry, Hog cranberry, Monox, Monox heather, Pigeon berry, Wire ling, Chamaetaxus nigra
E. nigrum is a mat-forming, evergreens shrub with trailing stems bearing needle-like, light green leaves and inconspicuous pale pink or pale purple flowers in late spring or early summer. Flowers are followed by edible, black fruit on female plants.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.15m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Ribes nigrum 'Noir de Bourgogne' (Blackcurrent 'Noir de Bourgogne' )
Other names: Ribes nigrum 'Black Burgundy'
'Noir de Bourgogne' is a vigorous, open, somewhat spreading, deciduous shrub with lobed, mid-green leaves and clusters of insignificant, yellow-green flowers in mid- to late spring followed by firm, round, glossy, black, edible fruit ready for harvest in midsummer.
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1m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Shibataea kumasasa (Ruscus-leaved bamboo)
Other names: Bambusa shibataea 'Kumasaca' , Shibataea kumasana, Sasa ruscifolia, Shibataea kumasaca , Okame zasa, Phyllostachys kumasasa, Phyllostachys ruscifolia
S. kumasasa is a clump-forming, evergreen bamboo with slender, short-jointed, greenish-brown canes and long-stalked, lance-shaped, dark green leaves.
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1m max. spread |
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1.5m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Ribes nigrum 'Ojebyn' (Blackcurrant 'Ojebyn')
Other names: Ribes nigrum 'Öjebyn', Black currant 'Ojebyn'
'Ojebyn' is a vigorous, upright, bushy, deciduous shrub with heart-shaped, shallowly lobed, toothed, mid-green leaves and clusters of insignificant, yellow-green flowers in mid- to late spring followed by firm, round, glossy, black, edible fruit ready for harvest in mid- to late summer.
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1m max. spread |
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1.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum' (Bronze Fennel)
Other names: Foeniculum vulgare 'Bronze', Foeniculum vulgare 'Nigra', Foeniculum vulgare 'Rubrum', Foeniculum vulgare 'Nigrum'
'Purpureum' is a vigorous, upright, aromatic biennial or short-lived perennial with branching stems bearing finely-divided, pinnate, mid-green leaves, bronze-purple when young. Flat umbels of small, yellow flowers in summer are followed by anise-scented seeds.
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0.5m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Solanum nigrum (Chichiquelite huckleberry)
Other names: Solanum nigrum var. melanocerasum, Garden huckleberry, Black nightshade
S. nigrum is a rare branching annual with exotic fruit that tastes like blueberry.
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1m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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1-2 years to maturity |
Alcea rosea 'Nigra' (Hollyhock 'Nigra')
Other names: Alcea rosea var. nigra, Alcea rosea 'Single Black'
'Nigra' is a vigorous, upright, bushy, biennial or short-lived perennial with lobed, rounded, rough, dark grey-green leaves and large, dark maroon flowers in summer.
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0.6m max. spread |
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2.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Allium atropurpureum (Very dark purple allium)
Other names: Purple flowered onion, Dark purple allium, Allium nigrum var. purpureum
A. atropurpureum is a clump-forming, deciduous, bulbous perennial with strap-shaped, grey-green leaves and sturdy, erect stems bearing dense umbels of deep reddish-purple flowers in late spring and early summer.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Vaccinium angustifolium (Late sweet blueberry)
Other names: Lowbush blueberry, Low sweet blueberry, Narrow-leaved whortleberry, Sweet-hurts, Early blueberry, Vaccinium lamarckii, Vaccinium pensylvanicum, Vaccinium nigrum, Vaccinium angustifolium var. nigrum, Vaccinium angustifolium var. laevifolium
V. angustifolium is a compact, spreading, deciduous shrub with broadly elliptic, glossy, blue-green leaves turning purple in autumn and racemes of bell-shaped, pink-flushed, white flowers in late spring and early summer followed by blue-black fruit.
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0.9m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
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