Phyllostachys nigra ‘Bory’

Description

Phyllostachys nigra ‘Bory’ 🎍
Common Name: Leopard Bamboo
Type: Running Bamboo | Ornamental 🌿 | Striking & Decorative 🌾

Phyllostachys nigra ‘Bory’, also known as Leopard Bamboo, is a bold and exotic bamboo variety famed for its unique speckled culms—a warm yellow to olive-green base mottled with dark brown to black leopard-like markings 🐆🌿. Each culm develops its own distinct pattern, giving every grove a truly one-of-a-kind appearance.

Reaching heights of up to 30 feet, Bory is perfect for creating ornamental focal points, privacy screens, or tropical-style backdrops. Its elegant form and rare coloring make it a favorite among bamboo collectors and garden designers looking to add visual intrigue and texture 🌾🌳.

🌿 Key Features:
📏 Height: 25–30 ft (7.5–9 m)
📐 Spread: Spreading (use rhizome barrier or root pruning)
❄️ Hardiness Zones: USDA 7–10
🎍 Growth Habit: Running, upright and decorative
🍃 Foliage: Dense green leaves
🐆 Culms: Yellow-green with bold dark spotting as they mature
🌞 Light Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
🏡 Uses: Ornamental specimens, privacy screens, exotic garden accents

✅ Why Choose Phyllostachys nigra ‘Bory’?
🐆 Distinctive, leopard-like culm markings
🌿 Adds rare texture and color contrast
🌱 Strong, fast-growing and visually dramatic
🌳 Ideal for privacy, structure, or artistic planting
🌞 A standout in any ornamental or tropical-style garden

Elevate your landscape with the wild beauty of Phyllostachys nigra ‘Bory’—a bamboo that combines structure and exotic flair like no other 🎍🌿.

A common name for this bamboo is Snakeskin, because of the way that the culms are marked.  Although a nigra the culms are not pure black, but instead develop spots or patches of dark color. When the culms are cut and seasoned, the green sections turn a straw color, and the spots show cloud-like shades of brown and ebony. The result is an excellent quality bamboo pole, that has coloring that looks like snakeskin. In Japan this bamboo is used in Tea Houses, for high quality, specialty finish work.  This bamboo makes a great tall screen, and the exceptional quality poles, are a bonus.