From a historical point of view; bamboos have coexisted with the dinosaurs and represent a grass matching their size.

After the destruction of Hiroshima, the emergence of young culms was one of the first signs of life.

It is said that in Japan people find refuge in bamboo fields during earthquakes, since the intertwined rhizomes withstand the ground.

Some bamboos bloom rarely: sometimes every 30, 50, .., 120 year. The vegetative propagation is often used. The plants in this case have same genetic code and the same flowering clock. Thus an entire family of clones may start to bloom at the same time around the world. It can happen as well that a bamboo blossom when put under high stress.

Another theory says that bamboo considering its weakness against grain-eating predators prefers inundate the ground with grains, through genetic trigger, surpassing the appetite of their predators.

On March 20, 1943, Anthony Warmerdam win the world record in high jump (4.78 m) using a bamboo pole.

Thomas Edison used a bamboo filament in his first test for light bulbs. The "Beppu Traditional Bamboo Craft Centre" in Japan has reproduced a prototype with this type of filament.

Persian monks brought back Oriental silkworm hidden inside bamboo canes. This put an end to the monopoly of Asia in the silk market.

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The inhabitants of the island of Malacca incise the living bamboo so that the wind produced music through the cane like that of an organ.

the Bamboo is not always straight.

Flowering and germination prove austere and often result in the death of the plant.

Bamboo likes water, but is not an aquatic plant and can not stand stagnant water.

This shoe is the one of an adult.

In South America this variety of bamboo with thorns is used to contain cattle and intruders.