Gigantochloa atroviolacea (Cultivated)

Gigantochloa atroviolacea Widjaja, Reinwardtia 10: 323 1987. (syn: Gigantochloa atter var. nigra Gamble);

China (S. Yunnan, Hong Kong), Jawa to Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali) as per WCSP;

Kindly identify this bamboo with dark culms about 4-5 cms. in diameter, photographed at the Auroville Botanical Garden, Tamil Nadu in March 2017.

Height of culms about 6 metres.

The photographs are limited but i hope the peculiar color of the culms allow some kind of identification.

I think this is Gigantochloa atroviolacea

Bamboo seen in Lalbagh last month.

Gigantochloa atroviolacea

I think this is Gigantochloa atroviolacea

While going through my posts, I came across this post from Lalbagh, Bangalore.

I seem to have missed adding the pictures.

Adding these.

… has confirmed this to be Gigantochloa atroviolacea.

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Ok, …

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This bamboo was again seen in the same cultivated garden in Thane in December 2016.

Is this the black bamboo, Phyllostachys nigra?

Gigantochloa atroviolacea