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the grass pretending to be a tree, growing faster than your attention span
means A tall, woody, fast-growing tropical grass with hollow, jointed stems, used for building, furniture, food, and just about everything else.
from English borrowed it in the late 16th or early 17th century, most likely from Dutch 'bamboes,' which traders picked up in the East Indies — probably from Malay 'mambu' or 'samambu.' The word traveled the spice routes along with the plant itself, the spelling shifting from mouth to ship to port until it settled into the tidy 'bamboo' we know.
- growth speed
- Some species shoot up 35 inches in a day
- actually grass
- It's a giant grass, not a tree
- rare bloom
- Some flower once every 100-plus years, then die together
- tensile strength
- Stronger in tension than many steels by weight
- panda fuel
- Pandas eat it 12 hours daily to survive
moso bamboo forest kyoto — 33,000 bamboo stalks in arashiyama, japan, grows up to 60 cm in a single day
phyllostachys edulis — chinese timber bamboo species, fastest growing plant on earth at 91 cm per day
bamboo scaffolding hong kong — still used on skyscrapers in hong kong, can support 4 tons per pole despite being lashed with rope