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Common Bamboo: Frequent and familiar species
Bamboo comprises an astonishing family of flowering grasses with nearly 2,000 species and cultivars in total. Some timber bamboo varieties are enormous, over 100 feet tall and a foot in diameter. Other dwarf and ground cover species thrive under the lower canopy of...
Bamboo in Brazil: Industry and forestry
As the fifth-largest nation in the world by area, and the only country to straddle both the equator and the tropic of Capricorn, Brazil is ideally situated to grow great quantities of high-quality bamboo. And after decades of habitat loss in the Amazon Rainforest,...
Bamboo Proverbs: 9 Great quotes about bamboo
Man's relationship with bamboo goes back many thousands of years. Bamboo has been a tool, a food and a building material. People have used bamboo to make weapons and even musical instruments. Over the course of our long and colorful history, bamboo and humanity have...
Smart Bamboo brings out the best in bamboo structures
The idea of bamboo construction probably dates back as far as writing on stone tablets. But the most modern bamboo buildings look nothing like the rustic structures of the past, just as the tablets of Gilgamesh bear little resemblance to the tablets we now use to make...
Bambusa vulgaris: A far-reaching bamboo species
Accurately identifying a bamboo species can be one of the greatest challenges in the field of botany or gardening. Almost everyone can recognize bamboo when they see it, but not everyone realizes how many species there are to choose from. (Around 1,500.) And when you...
Growing bamboo for profit: Green gold
Bamboo is huge. It grows like mad, faster than any plant on earth, and you can make almost anything with it. The demand for bamboo has never been greater. And we think that's a good thing. Because in terms of sustainability, bamboo outstrips all the competition. It...