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Bamboo Morphology: 9 Parts of the bamboo plant
The more you know about bamboo, the more fascinating the plant becomes. From the strength of its fibers to the tenacity of its roots to the unpredictability of its flowering, this is a grass like no other. At the same time, from an anatomical and botanical...
Fertilizing your bamboo: Simple solutions
It seems like the most common problem gardeners have with bamboo is that it grows too fast. Certain varieties of running bamboo can definitely be aggressive or even invasive. But without proper care and feeding, your bamboo might also languish, lose leaves and fail to...
Bambusa balcooa: Beema bamboo for better biomass
Looking for the optimal species of bamboo to save the planet? With more than a thousand species to choose from, it's hard to know the best bamboo for capturing carbon, generating oxygen, or producing a robust building material. To select the best bamboo, you also need...
Bamboo Flour: Going against the grain
Just when I thought I'd seen every possible product made from bamboo, my friend tells me about bamboo spaghetti. Excusez-moi? That's right, they're making pasta from bamboo flour. Wait a minute... I'm still trying to wrap my head around bamboo flowering. Bamboo flour...
Bamboo in Australia: Clumpers from Down Under
It's an island, it's a country, it's a continent. Australia is a world of its own. Extraordinary marsupials, Tasmanian devils, and a unique legacy of Aboriginal culture. Foster's Beer, shrimp on the barbie, and Crocodile Dundee. These are the things that come to mind...
Remembering the House of Bamboo: A pictorial history
Incredible, indelible and infectious: just a few words to describe the year 2020. Among other seminal events, Bambu Batu permanently closed the doors of its brick-and-mortar store in downtown San Luis Obispo. But with a sliver of 20-20 hindsight, and a safe distance...