Jun 9, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Products
Bamboo literature for your library or coffee table Here at Bambu Batu, we’re just crazy about bamboo. Perhaps you knew that by now. We grow it, we wear it, we eat it, and we read about it. As one of the oldest cultivated plants in human history, you can believe there...
Mar 30, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
When it comes to bamboo trivia, few questions are more frequently asked or more inconclusively debated. How many bamboo species are there? Most authors and experts agree that there are approximately 1,500 species of bamboo. Occasionally, you may come across a claim...
Jan 27, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species, Bambu Batu, Green Living
By now you’ve probably heard a thing or two about the many virtues of bamboo: its versatility, its sustainability, and its indispensability. And you’ve no doubt admired its beauty, as it flourishes among pagodas in Japanese gardens, on the patios of Thai...
Dec 19, 2022 | Bamboo Species
Bamboo is more than just an amazing plant. It’s more like an entire family, made up of nearly 2,000 plants. But technically, according to the botanical taxonomy, bamboo is actually a sub-family within the grass family, Poaceae. The subfamily Bambusoideae...
Nov 4, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
It begins with the realization that “lucky bamboo” is not actually bamboo at all. And then they tell you there are two kinds of bamboo: runners and clumpers. But then you discover that there are more than 1,400 species of bamboo, plus a few hundred...