Introducing Bamboo: Genus by genus

Introducing Bamboo: Genus by genus

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...
Bamboo: A tree or a grass?

Bamboo: A tree or a grass?

“I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree,” said the American poet Joyce Kilmer. Oak, spruce, or redwood, a tree is a most wonderful thing to behold, tall, mighty, and teeming with greenery. You probably wouldn’t speak as glowingly...