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To: Sam who wrote (3201)	1/22/2009 5:29:03 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 49098

Some Bamboo Facts 1. There are more than 1,000 species of this tree-like member of the grass family. Southeast Asia has nearly half the world’s species, with China having more than any other country. 2. Bamboo stalks can grow two feet in a single day. Temperate bamboo can grow to its full height of 60 feet in a couple of months. By contrast, it can take 60 years to replace a 60-foot tree. 3. Bamboo is composed of a stalk, also called a culm, and a network of underground stems and roots. The strong culm is stabilized by a series of reinforced notches, known as nodes. 4. Underground, the bamboo stems, or rhizomes, are so strong that people have taken refuge from earthquakes in old bamboo groves because they know the rhizomes will hold the earth together. jungletrader.blogspot.com