Phyllostachys nigra (Black bamboo)
Other names: Whangee cane, Kuro-chiku
P. nigra is a clump-forming, suckering, evergreen bamboo with glossy, black canes, green when young, and long, narrowly lance-shaped, green leaves.
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4m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis (Henon bamboo)
Other names: Phyllostachys henonis, Phyllostachys nigra 'Henon', Phyllostachys nigra f. henonis
P. nigra var. henonis is a very tall, erect growing evergreen bamboo.
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5m max. spread |
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20m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Phyllostachys nigra 'Boryana' (Black bamboo 'Boryana')
'Boryana' is a clump-forming, evergreen bamboo with lance-shaped, dark green leaves and slender, green to yellow-green canes with purple-brown marks.
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2.5m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Ilex glabra 'Nigra' (Appalachian tea tree 'Nigra')
Other names: Inkberry 'Nigra', Gallberry 'Nigra', Ink berry 'Nigra', Winterberry 'Nigra'
'Nigra' is a compact, rounded, evergreen shrub with upright stems bearing ovate or lance-shaped, spineless, glossy, dark green leaves and insignificant white flowers in late spring and early summer followed by spherical, black fruit.
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1.5m max. spread |
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1.2m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Thuja occidentalis 'Nigra' (White cedar 'Nigra')
Other names: Eastern white cedar 'Nigra', Northern white cedar 'Nigra', American arborvitae 'Nigra', Eastern arborvitae 'Nigra'
'Nigra' is a dense, narrowly conical, evergreen, coniferous tree with reddish-brown, exfoliating bark, flattened sprays of ovate, scale-like, aromatic, dark green leaves and ovoid, female cones with paired, smooth scales.
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3m max. spread |
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9m max. height |
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20-50 Years to maturity |
Betula nigra 'Cully' (River birch 'Cully')
Other names: Red birch 'Cully', Black birch 'Cully', Betula nigra 'Heritage'
'Cully' is a vigorous, conical to spreading, deciduous tree with peeling, pale brown bark, glossy, diamond-shaped, dark green leaves turning yellow in autumn, and yellow-brown male flower catkins in early spring.
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12m max. spread |
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18m max. height |
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20-50 Years to maturity |
Acer palmatum 'Dissectum Nigrum' (Japanese maple 'Dissectum Nigrum')
Other names: Acer palmatum 'Ever Red', Lace-leaf Japanese maple 'Dissectum Nigrum', Laceleaf Japanese maple 'Dissectum Nigrum', Acer palmatum var. dissectum 'Nigrum'
'Dissectum Nigrum' is a dense, mound-forming to spreading, deciduous shrub or small tree with palmate, dark reddish-purple leaves divided into five deeply lobed leaflets, silvery-hairy, when young, the entire leaf turning scarlet in autumn. Corymbs of inconspicuous, red flowers in spring are followed by winged, red-flushed, green seed pods.
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3m max. spread |
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2.5m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Phyllostachys humilis (Phyllostachys humilis)
P. humilis is a vigorous, spreading, evergreen bamboo with erect culms that emerge reddish-brown, turning bright green, then flushed orange with maturity, and lance-shaped, olive-green leaves.
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4m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Pleioblastus viridistriatus (Kamuro-zasa)
Other names: Arundinaria auricoma, Arundinaria viridistriata, Pleioblastus auricomus, Dwarf green-stripe bamboo
P. viridistriatus is a compact, evergreen bamboo forming a colony of erect, holly, purple-flushed, green canes, hairy at the nodes, and narrowly elliptic to broadly linear leaves with yellow and green stripes.
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1.5m max. spread |
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1.8m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
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 |
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