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We couldn’t have a site extolling the virtues of bamboo without sharing information about its most famous admirer, the giant panda. The giant panda is a bear, and like its more ferocious cousins, pandas can eat meat. However, scientists estimate that the diet of giant pandas consists almost totally (99%) of bamboo. Bamboo is such [...]
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In Part 2 of All About Bamboo, we discussed animal consumption of bamboo and how bamboo is prepared and used for commercial purposes, including making bamboo sheets and bamboo clothing. In Part 3, we will discuss ornamental bamboos, bamboo in Asian Culture and bamboo myths and legends. Ornamental bamboos Many bamboos are popular as garden [...]
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Bamboos are not trees, but are a group of woody perennial evergreen plants in the true grass family called Poaceae. They are members of the subfamily Bambusoideae and tribe Bambuseae. Bamboos are considered the fastest growing woody plants in the world due to a unique rhizome-dependent system that is highly dependent on local soil and [...]
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