Heavenly bamboo
Nandina domestica Thunb.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 1.5 m
Berberidaceae
Also called Sacred bamboo, Nandina, Heavenly Bamboo
Formerly Nandina denudata, Nandina tsermonanten
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & S. ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 2.0 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 3–8 ft; Wikipedia 2–2 m
- Spread
- 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 2–5 ft; Wikipedia 1.5–1.5 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension white; Wikipedia pink, white
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Hottest it survives
- 43 °CRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: heat.
In other languages (12)
- Japanese
- ナンテン
- Spanish
- Bambú asiático sagrado
- Chinese
- 南天竹, 南天竺, 南天竹叶
- Korean
- 남천
- Italian
- Bambù sacro
- Russian
- Нандина домашняя
- French
- bambou sacré
- Chinese (China)
- 南天竹
- Danish
- Himmelsk bambus
- Hebrew
- ננדינה תרבותית
- Polish
- Nandina domowa
- German
- Heiliger Bambus
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Nandina domestica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.