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§1 Plant
Nandina domestica Thunb.
vernacular sacred bamboo — species · Berberidaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Berberidaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Nandina
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 47 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 2 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 165 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–6
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- High
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 8 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 47 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Bienville 22013
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Richland 22083
- St. Charles 22089
- St. James 22093
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- West Carroll 22123
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/NADO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5371712 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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