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 |
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Nigra' (Hydrangea 'Nigra')
Other names: Hydrangea macrophylla 'Mandshurica'
'Nigra' is a small deciduous shrub with distinctive purple-black stems and dark-green ovate leaves. In summer it bears rose-pink (or bluish in acid soils) flowers in rounded flower-heads.
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1.5m max. spread |
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1.5m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Phyllostachys edulis (Moso bamboo)
Other names: Phyllostachys heterocycla f. pubescens, Phyllostachys heterocycla 'Pubescens', Phyllostachys pubescens, Phyllostachys mitis, Phyllostachys edulis 'Moso', Moso-chiku, Tortoise shell bamboo
P. edulis is a large, vigorous, spreading, evergreen bamboo with green to grey culms, silvery-grey and pubescent when young, turning yellow-green in full sun, and small, lance-shaped, mid-green leaves.
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10m max. spread |
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15m max. height |
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10-20 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 |
Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla 'Guincho Purple' (Elder 'Guincho Purple')
Other names: Sambucus nigra 'Purpurea', Sambucus nigra 'Guincho Purple' , Sambucus nigra 'Folius Purpurea' , Sambucus nigra 'Foliis Purpureis', Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla 'Purpurea' , Elderberry 'Guincho Purple'
'Guincho Purple' is a large, bushy, deciduous shrub or small tree with pinnate, maroon leaves, green in spring and turning red in autumn. Flat flowerheads of pale pink flowers in summer are followed by purple-black fruit.
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6m max. spread |
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6m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Prunus cerasifera 'Nigra' (Black cherry plum)
Other names: Prunus 'Pissardii Nigra', Prunus 'Blaze'
'Nigra' is a medium, rounded, deciduous tree with dark purple leaves. It bears single, pale-pink flowers in early spring and has purple-black twigs.
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12m max. spread |
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12m max. height |
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20-50 Years to maturity |
Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla 'Eva' (Elder 'Eva')
Other names: Sambucus nigra 'Black Lace', Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla 'Black Lace', Sambucus nigra 'Eva'
'Eva' is an upright, deciduous shrub or small tree with pinnate leaves divided into ovate to elliptic, deeply toothed, purple-black leaflets and flat umbels of fragrant, pink flowers in summer followed by purple-black fruit.
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3m max. spread |
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3m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla 'Gerda' (Elder 'Gerda')
Other names: Black elder 'Black Beauty', Sambucus nigra 'Black Beauty', Sambucus nigra 'Gerda', Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla 'Black Beauty', Black elder 'Gerda'
'Gerda' is an upright, deciduous shrub or small tree with pinnate leaves divided into three to seven, ovate to elliptic, dark purple-black leaflets and flattened panicles of tiny, aromatic, pink flowers in summer followed by spherical, glossy, black fruit.
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4m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
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