Thursday, January 21, 2010

Bamboo Glance


Bamboo is a lot of plants in tropical areas usually wild grows in the village or woods, is a strong tree, he lived in groups and always grows new shoots at the ripe stem.

This new leaf growth happens during the Spring time has leaf surface a pointed, although not tightly when rub each other blown wind noise yield, the stem round, has a segment, and hollow or solid, but generally hollow.

Bamboo is a belongs of the grass family, from a single stem new shoots that grow to create a new group. Bamboo type is reaching more than 1500 different species, mostly available in the tropics area. Bamboo is the fastest growing plant, Some types can arise new shoots up out of the ground at a rate of over 1 foot per day. It takes a varying number of years (4-15) for different species to reach their maximum size.

The bamboo plant is a very valuable and versatile raw material, it is used for building complete houses, many crafts also use bamboo materials, to create unique appliances and highly valuable. Bamboo can add greenery to your garden during the winter, it can stabilize the soil of embankments and control the worst of erosion problems.

As wood becomes more scarce bamboo construction will hold more and more value outside of the tropical climates where the benefits of its use have been known for centuries.

Unbelievable, but its tensile strength compares to that of steel and therefore bamboo has been used in construction for centuries because bamboo can be harvested and used cheaply and it grows back in lightning speed.

Most bamboos have green canes with green leaves. Some have variegated leaves like white stripes on the leaves. For the most part, variegated leaves are most vibrant when the leaf is young.

For color in the canes – here are some useful qualities to keep in mind :

* Yellow Bamboo


This type of bamboo looks bright, lemon yellow color of the stems that were largely matched in the spring when new buds are exposed to the sun is a beautiful sight. These are among the most powerful cold and bamboo can grow almost anywhere in the United States. Grew up a habit of making good choices when the narrow, colorful screen desired.

* Blue Bamboo


The Blue Bamboo is a rare species have moments in their lives when they are absolutely blue, The spectacular color usually occurs when the plant is putting up its newest canes. Not all countries have this type, this species is only seen in the Himalayas maybe that's why Latin names are also Himalayacalamus hookerianus. The color looks amazing when the surrounding trees grew green with different colors.

Blue bamboo does not reach such heights of yellow bamboo and tend to shoot a little group of, but true or not if the bamboo into the smallest types of bamboo.

Many fans of ornamental plant species to hunt because bamboo is a beautiful blue and unique. By showing them at home will have its own pride as a decoration that brightens the home.



* White Bamboo

One of our new favorites. A beautiful single specimen or anything, with nodding tops, this plant is graceful with a moderate footprint.

White bamboos throw new shoots that are covered with a lot of powder (sometimes called ‘bloom’). When the canes are covered in this powder they appear (convincingly) to be white.






* Black Bamboo

Among the segments of the black bamboo like poles with paint in white color, gloss was evident in the group make it look beautiful bamboo.

Black bamboos usually start off green when they are juvenile. Every season, the new canes emerge green and then turn black. Smaller, younger plants may take a season or two to attain the maturity to change color. Older plants will do it as a matter of course.

The plant has one of the most upright and vertical profiles of each of clumping bamboo, power trunk very tough and hard.

This type is widely used as a unique architecture for the colored stems blackish, maybe that's why we rarely get this kind.

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