New in we have these fantastic
very contemporary Black Bamboo seeds!
The upright stems (erect canes)
are greenish when young but turn blackish or purplish-black in colour as they
age. These stems (usually 1-4 cm thick) are banded with horizontal rings at the
joints (nodes)
and are grooved lengthwise (longitudinally) between the joints (the internodes).
The leaves are alternately
arranged, but clustered on short shoots which grow from the branches. They
have a sheath surrounding
the stem and the base of the leaf blade is
very narrow, and stalk-like in appearance (pseudo-petiolate).
The leaf sheaths are
mostly hairless (glabrous),
except near their margins. Where the leaf sheath meets
the leaf blade there
is a tiny membranous structure
topped with hairs (the ligule is
a ciliate membrane).
The leaf blades (6-12
cm long and 9-15 mm wide) are oblong or elongated (lanceolate)
in shape, have entire margins, and are mostly hairless (glabrous).