May 27, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Products, Bamboo Species
Bamboo is universally recognized as a plant with thousands of uses. It’s fast-growing, sustainable, strong, and versatile. For many centuries, people have used bamboo for food, for building, for furniture, for crafts, and endless applications. Bamboo is also...
Mar 25, 2024 | Bamboo Products, Bamboo Species
The remarkable strength of bamboo has long invited comparisons to more industrial materials like iron and steel. And while certain more graceful and whispy varieties take on names like Seabreeze, Buddha Belly, and Umbrella Bamboo, a handful of the most formidable...
Jul 12, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Industry, Bamboo Species, Worldwide
Here at Bambu Batu, we have been in the business of promoting and educating people about the many wonders of bamboo for nearly two decades. Peruse the website and you’ll discover hundreds of articles addressing nearly every possible aspect of bamboo botany and...
Aug 17, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Black bamboo remains one of the most popular varieties of bamboo. And it comes as no surprise. Black is beautiful, after all. But the world of bamboo is vast and mysterious. This subfamily of grasses includes something like 1,500 or more species and cultivars...
Sep 1, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Industry, Green Living, Worldwide
One of the smaller countries in South America and one of the world’s richest in biodiversity, Ecuador enjoys the splendor of the Amazon rainforest but also suffers from the economic challenges endemic to Latin America and other tropical latitudes. Bamboo...
