| Scientific Name: | Nandina domestica |
| Common Name: | heavenly bamboo |
| Family Name: | Berberidaceae |
| Origin: | South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright, Twiggy |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Attract birds, Cut flower or foliage, Group or mass planting, Screening |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Leathery, Glabrous, Tripinnate, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Thyrse, White, Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Red, Sep-Oct-Nov, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Taller, multi-stemmed, evergreen shrub with erratic growth pattern; leaves large, compound, tripinnate with dark, serrate, leaflets mostly lanceolate, 3-8cm long x 1.5-2.5cm wide, apex long acuminate, rachis rough to the touch, new growth red. | |