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Bamboo, like wood, is a natural composite material with a high strength-to-weight ratio useful for structures. [19] Bamboo's strength-to-weight ratio is similar to timber, and its strength is generally similar to a strong softwood or hardwood timber. [20] [21] Some bamboo species have displayed remarkable strength under test conditions.
Bamboos have a strong reproductive capacity which can be seen in how fast they can regrow after being cut down. Within 2 to 3 months of being cut, a bamboo shoot can grow into a full-grown tree and quickly cover the land with many trees. This is the reason why some say that when you cut a bamboo tree, you are planting a bamboo tree in its place.
Bambusa vulgaris, common bamboo, is an open-clump type bamboo species. It is native to Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka , Southeast Asia , and to the province of Yunnan in southern China , but it has been widely cultivated in many other places and has become naturalized in several regions.
Because bamboo can grow on otherwise marginal land, bamboo can be profitably cultivated in many degraded lands. [4] [5] Moreover, because of the rapid growth, bamboo is an effective climate change mitigation and carbon sequestration crop, absorbing between 100 and 400 tonnes of carbon per hectare (40–160 tonnes per acre).
Bamboo is a group of woody perennial plants in the true grass family Poaceae. In the tribe Bambuseae, also known as bamboo, there are 91 genera and over 1,000 species. The size of bamboo varies from small annuals to giant timber bamboo. Bamboo evolved 30 to 40 million years ago, after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
Arundinaria gigantea is a species of bamboo known as giant cane (not to be confused with Arundo donax), river cane, and giant river cane.It is endemic to the south-central and southeastern United States as far west as Oklahoma and Texas and as far north as New York.
Bambusa tulda, or Indian timber bamboo (alternatively spineless Indian bamboo or Bengal bamboo [2]), is considered to be one of the most useful of bamboo species. It is native to the Indian subcontinent , Indochina , Tibet , and Yunnan , and naturalized in Iraq , Puerto Rico , and parts of South America .
The Bambuseae are the most diverse tribe of bamboos in the grass family ().They consist of woody species from tropical regions, including some giant bamboos.Their sister group are the small herbaceous bamboos from the tropics in tribe Olyreae, while the temperate woody bamboos (Arundinarieae) are more distantly related.