Bamboo plants are a useful and versatile plant.:

Bamboo grows at an astonishing r of up to 2 inches per hour. This makes it the world's fastest growing plant. In some cases, the bamboo plant grow up to 4 meters in a day.

Bamboo plants are not trees. Actually, they are egreen grasses. These grasses fall into 91 different genera, with o 1,000 species currently known. As different species be used for different things, this variety helps to ensure the lasting survival of this plant.

This fast growing r makes bamboo plants invaluable in eastern regi such as India, China and Japan. As the bamboo plants be used as food, wood and fuel, the fast growing r makes this renewable resource a cornerstone of those societies. As bamboo, when properly tred, be extremely durable and long lasting, it provides an easy solution to many problems.

One of the most common uses of bamboo plants is their cultivation as wood. In ctruction, bamboo cre massive, stable scaffoldings, provide a base wood o slower growing trees, and provide ornamental value to both the interior and exterior of homes. Other uses of bamboo wood include tools such as durable cutting boards, chop sticks, tables and other pieces of furniture as well as components in popular games such as go boards.

When bamboo plants are young, the shoots be en from many different varieties. Howe, not all types of bamboo shoots should be en. The giant bamboo, as an example, contains cyanide within the shoots. Cyanide be lethal to humans.

Many types of animals survive by eating bamboo. Most notably is the panda, which only eats bamboo stalks and leaves.

Even with all of modern uses of bamboo, bamboo plants do not come without faults. The bamboo plant, for reas yet proven by science, tends to have mass flowering and fruiting seas. This is most notable in the Bay of Bengal, where the bamboo plants bloom once ey 30 to 35 years. This mass blooming and fruiting cases see cequences to human populati nearby. As the fruit falls to the ground, rats swarm. As the rats swarm, they bring disease with them and cause famine. This lead to many human deaths, as there is little that be done to stop the fruiting once it has begun. As the bamboo populati require the fruiting season for survival, they not be simply destroyed to prevent the rat swarms.

Bamboo is a satile plant and grow in many regi across the world. They are most commonly found in East Asia, although they thrive in sub-Saharan Africa, North and South America. Bamboo does not grow in Europe, North Africa, western Asia, Canada and Antarctica.

Steve Habib is a lawn care and landscaping expert and owner of Landscape Problem Sol locd in St. Petersburg, Florida. For free lawn and gardening tips, advice, articles and more visit: http://www.stpetersburglawnlandscape.com/news