Further of Bamboo

Growth of selected species
The cells of the stems as trees contain a large amount of lignin and are correspondingly hard. Therefore, the stalks reach great height. Some species reach huge dimensions - such as Dendrocalamus brandisii is 38 meters high, 80 cm Halmumfang. Bamboos are among the most useful plants to humans, especially Bambusa arundinacea in this regard is to be compared only with the coconut palm. Their real home is not known; they are found in both hemispheres, and they flourish luxuriantly, for example in Algeria and in southern France. From the rhizome shoot numerous stalks 18 meters and up on with great rapidity. The leaves are 16 cm long, but only 1.3 cm wide. The flowers are only in the 25th Years and then appear but so numerous that the plants are exhausted by the large production of fruits and whole or to die on the rhizome. Dendrocalamus giganteus flourishes only in the 30th Year of life. Bambusa tulda achieved in Indochina in one month, the height of 22 meters. In the area of the Amazon is an important part of Bambusa latifolia vegetation. From China, Korea and Japan Variegated bamboo be introduced, which is especially the Japanese, low-growing Bambusa fortunei recommended as an ornamental plant.

Flower formation
Most bamboo species are monokarpe plants die after flowering and fruiting. They flower in sync periodically, depending on the type every 12 to 120 years. Since the plants bloom simultaneously in one region, this death of plants affect a large region. This is, among other things, in the 1990s and 2006 occurred in Europe, where bamboo is used as garden plant. The death may be counteracted by the bamboo radically prune it, pours well, and waits until the first shoots appear. Success was also the cover with compost after cutting back near the ground. The new shoots appear around mid-flowering of the proceeding to the following year - entirely from the old root. An increase by sowing was observed. Given the rare frequency of the flowering of bamboo is not understood in detail, it is not yet known, for example, how the plant flowers so rare and what it suggests to thrive. There is assumed that the rare and large flower helps to get the seeds, since no animals can specialize in their consumption.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambus
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