JessiccaFact: Bamboo
November 2nd 2006 08:58
The Bamboo plant is a member of the grass family, which has been used for years to make houses, furniture, boats, piping, baskets, and musical instruments. The plant looks like a tree and its most striking feature is that most produce seeds only once in their lifetime -- but a bamboo plant can live for more than 100 years. In 1990, scientists announced that they are developing a way of producing bamboo flowers more rapidly, which may be very important to its cultivation.
The woody, hollow aerial stems (culms) of bamboo grow in branching clusters from a thick underground stem (rhizome). The culms often form a dense undergrowth that excludes other plants. Bamboo culms can attain heights ranging from about 4 to 6 inches in the smallest species to more than 130 feet in the largest.
There are certain type of bamboo is also the survival food for the slowly extinct Panda's across the world, especially China.
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Comment by Emile
A Lesson A Day
I'm a brand new blogger on Orble, and I noticed we had the same kind of blog subject.
Anyway, interesting stuff.
Comment by Jessicca
Health 2 Know
Learning Something Everyday
Daily History
Malaysia Found
Yeah, I just realised that your subject is almost the same as mine. Let's hope that our information can be shared to many out there!