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Bamboo Flowering: A botanical phenomenon
From food to flooring, bamboo has thousands of practical uses. But when was the last time someone brought you a bouquet of bamboo flowers? When was the last time you even saw a bamboo flower, for that matter? Perhaps never, because bamboo flowers are both infrequent...
9 Best bamboo species to place in a pot
When bamboo gets into the ground, it can become notoriously indestructible. Of course, there are ways to keep it from growing into a menace. Rhizome barrier systems can be very effective, while cavalier efforts to kill it with bleach or gasoline are less so. More...
Growing Bamboo for Carbon Credits
To encourage the reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the carbon credit trading system incentivizes farmers and industrialists to initiate and operate carbon-negative projects, rewarding them with monetarily valuable credits. At the same time, polluting...
Gigantocalamus malpenensis: Malaysian bamboo hybrid
Genuinely majestic, Gigantocalamus malpenensis is a natural, intergeneric hybrid, a cross between Gigantochloa scortechinii and Dendrocalamus pendulus, found only in the forested hills of the Malaysian peninsula. Gigantocalamus malpenensis with its furry culm...
21 of the World’s Best Bamboo Gardens
So you're in love with bamboo, and you just can't get enough of it? Welcome to the club. My name is Fred and I'm a bambooholic. That's right. Without my regular fix of noble bamboo grasses, I get terribly wound up. When the monotony of ordinary life brings me down, or...
3 Ways of propagating bamboo and one is pretty easy
If a little bit of bamboo is good, then a little more bamboo must be even better. So, when you're growing bamboo, it's natural to want to increase your numbers by propagating more plants. Maybe you have an unusually attractive species, and you want more of them in...