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Originally Posted by Pam Moore[_2_]
Did it flower last year? If so it may well be dead. That's what they do. That's what happened to mine, in the ground, a few years ago.
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Yours would have been Fargesia nitida, which some unscrupulous dealers sold as "black bamboo". True black bamboo, Phyllostachys nigra, has not flowered recently, and is not flowering - (though you can get a bit of sporadic flowering on most kinds of bamboo if stressed, but that shouldn't kill the whole clump.)