Bamboo is a fascinating material. Below are some interesting facts that you may not know about bamboo:
- Bamboo is not a wood but a grass.
- Bamboo is the highest and strongest grass in the world.
- Bamboo is stronger than oak.
- The sugars in the bamboo give it its beautiful natural colour variations.
- Bamboo takes between 5-7 years to mature.
- Bamboo produces 30% more oxygen than other plants.
- There are over 1500 species of bamboo – from tiny ground covers to 30m giants.
- Approximately 2 tons of edible bamboo shoots are eaten every year.
- Some bamboo can grow 18 inch per day and reach a height of 100 ft.
- Bamboo survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and re-greened the same year.
- Bamboo is such a versatile plant – it can be eaten, used to eat off, sit on, walk on, ride on and live under.
- Bamboo is tender enough to eat yet has a tensile strength greater than steel.
- The fastest growing bamboo ever recorded grew 1,2m in 24 hours.
- An acre of bamboo can provide for more flooring than an acre of trees.
- The Panda does not feed on the type of bamboo used in bamboo flooring (Mao/Moso bamboo), which means the endangered Panda is unaffected by the bamboo farming.
- The W.W.F. Estimates an acre of bamboo can store 6,88 metric tons of carbon per year, about 70% more than hard woods.
- The species of bamboo used for flooring is commonly known as “Moso”.
- Bamboo is officially recognized as the world’s fastest growing plant.
- Bamboo has a tensile strength comparable to steel.
- Thomas Edison used bamboo filaments in his first light bulbs, and one of those bulbs is STILL burning today at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.
- Bamboo is an essential structural material in earthquake architecture.
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