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...
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...
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...
Aug 29, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening
“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...
Jun 4, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
When you hear the phrase “bamboo tribe”, you might picture some long-haired, freaky people sitting around a bonfire playing African drums and didgeridoos. Or you might imagine an even more tasteless case of cultural appropriation, full of bows and arrows...
