Species/Common Name
Gigantochloa Atroviolacea
variation Black

Info:
This magnificent very erect sooty black-culmed bamboo which retain its black colouring after harvesting, is much valued for furniture and musical instrument making in Java. The culms, sometimes with light coloured stripes, are exposed and leafless for some metres then capped with dense downward pointing leaves. The dark hair covered shoot is edible. Very nice ornamental bamboo for park lands or tropical resorts.