bamboo books

Whether you’re looking to grow your library of bamboo literature, or you just want a beautiful new edition for your coffee table, these are some of our favorite books about our favorite plant.

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Growing Bamboo for Carbon Credits

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

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

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...