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Heavenly Bamboo
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Heavenly Bamboo (Nandina) - N. domestica is a distinct and graceful shrub with dark leathery leaves, often flushed with red towards autumn.

 


Heavenly bamboo is a broadleaf evergreen. The leaves, which are bi- or tri-pinnately compound, give the plant a very fine textured appearance.

Heavenly Bamboo, (Nandina domestica), is completely unrelated to Bamboo. It's common name comes only from it's resemblance to bamboo due to the fine lacy foliage, and the growth pattern of the plant, which is cane like.

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Heavenly Bamboo
Latin: Nandina domestica
I've always liked nandina. In fact, my first college paper on a plant way back when, was on this shrub.

Heavenly Bamboo, Nandina, Sacred Bamboo
This bamboolike shrub is grown for its finely-textured foliage, upright canelike stems, and showy red berries which give color through winter.

Heavenly Bamboo As A Hedge
For use as an informal hedge, either as a line or boundary marker or as background for beds and borders, nandina is equally useful.

Heavenly bamboo
Despite its common name, "heavenly bamboo" is not a bamboo at all. It is an upright, evergreen shrub native to Japan and China. Foliage is green throughout the summer, turning red in the winter.

Filamentosa Heavenly Bamboo Nandina domestica ‘Filamentosa' Plant habit Main Page Previous Next Info Back ...

Nandina domestica is a remarkable evergreen shrub that adds a quiet beauty to the garden all year round, yet adds a dash of wonderful in fall and winter with colorful leaves and bright red berries. Its common name, Heavenly bamboo, ...

Heavenly Bamboo
Nandina domestica
Heavenly Bamboo is a semi-evergreen shrub grown for its attractive foliage, fruit and flowers.
About This Plant ...

Heavenly Bamboo - Evergreen shrub to 8' tall by 3' wide. Sun/Shade. Water occasionally. Pink flowers in spring-summer. Cold hardy to 10-15 F. [N. 'Japanese Princess']
Neomarica caerulea ...

heavenly bamboo Berberidaceae Nandina domestica Thunb.   symbol: NADO
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Heavenly Bamboo, Nanten or
Common Nandina
"When snow is white on moat & tree
& crusts each bamboo feather,
My Yuki lifts her eyes to me,--
'Tis all I know of weather." -from "Yuki"
Mary McNeil Fenollosa
(fl. 1890s ...

heavenly bamboo, Japanese sacred bamboo, nandina, sacred bamboo, sacred Japanese bamboo, southern heaven bamboo
Family
Beberidaceae ...

Nandina or heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestica) is an evergreen or semi-evergreen broadleaf shrub, which is tough and durable. Large plants have been growing in South Carolina for 100 or more years without any care.
Mature Height/Spread ...

Heavenly Bamboo
Sacremento Bur Triumfetta Semitriloba [English]: Triumfetta semitriloba
Sacuara [Spanish (Per]: Cortaderia jubata
Sacuara [Spanish]: Cortaderia jubata
Sacumana [Spanish]: Oenocarpus bataua ...

heavenly bamboo; nandina, sacred bamboo Nandina domestica
hedge maple; field maple Acer campestre
hedge mustard Sisymbrium officinale
Hedionda-macho Senna septentrionalis
helleborine Epipactis helleborine
hellroot Orobanche minor ...

The big beautiful bunches of bright berries are just one reason the heavenly bamboo is such a popular landscape shrub.
Description
Also known as heavenly bamboo, nandina is an evergreen or semi-evergreen woody shrub often used in landscaping.

Originally from China and Japan, nandina, or heavenly bamboo, was introduced to the United States in 1804 for use as an ornamental plant.

Nandina domestica
'Compacta'
Compact Nandina, Heavenly Bamboo
Description ...

Nandina - Nandina Shrubs
Nandina domestica - Heavenly Bamboo; Sacred Bamboo
Betulaceae: The Birch Family ...

there are a number of things that look like bamboo, and are called bamboo, but aren't, like Pogonatherum crinitum ("German bamboo") and Peperomia 'Bamboo Stalks.' Then there is, of course, Nandina domestica (sacred or heavenly bamboo) ...

Nandina domestica (Heavenly Bamboo)
Podophyllum hexandrum (Himalayan May Apple)
Podophyllum peltatum (May Apple)
Vancouveria chrysantha (Golden Insideout Flower)
Vancouveria hexandra (White Insideout Flower) ...

See also: Bamboo, Nandina, Nandina domestica, Green, Evergreen

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