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Bamboo Plants
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some coastal regions of Africa the people make their houses out of bamboo. The Duala people of Cameroon live in these places. At these and many other pars of Africa bamboo is used to make houses. Bamboo is a group of woody, perennial evergreen plants. Bamboo forms the largest members of the grass family. There are about 1000 species of bamboo as proposed in botanical literature and they can be found anywhere between the cold mountains to the hot tropical regions. They grow all over East Asia, through to northern Australia and in 5th west to India and the Himalayas. They also grow in Sub Saharan Africa and in North and South America and United States and Argentina and Chile. There are no native bamboos in areas of Europe, North Africa, western Asia, Canada, most of Australia and Antarctica.
In India , bamboo is a symbol of friendship. In China it is a symbol of longevity. Some of the
members of this grass family grow to a height of 100 meters. New shoots of the bamboo trees can grow over 1 meter per day. They are of great economic and cultural significance in East Asia and
South East Asia. Bamboo is widely used in gardens, as building materials and as a food source. In India bamboo is put to variety of uses. They are used to make pandals on occasions
They are also used to make houses and other constructions. They are put to a variety of uses. They
can easily be recognized by their prominent hollow stems better known as ‘culms’ with nodes at the intervals. There re two types of bamboos, running bamboos and clumping
bamboos. Bamboos are extensively used for decorative purposes in many eastern countries. These plants are use to make aesthetic objects and in the making of baskets. The plants are used to
make decorative objects.
Young shoots of several species of bamboo are important vegetables of the daily diet among many
groups of peoples in many parts of China. It has been said that the young grasses of many species of bamboo provide the use of many things. They a re put to the number of uses in the world. The
bamboo is a valuable source of certain enzymes. The bamboos are used to make many foods in the east. Bamboo is also extensively used in paper making. In many eastern countries it s used to make
paper. They are used in the manufacture of paper in the Chittagong Hill tracts. There are paper making factories at Khulna in Bangladesh and in Chandraghona and Paksey. Bamboos are
also used to make musical instruments. In Africa they are used to make blowguns which can be 18 inches to more than 23 feet
long.
Bamboo plants are extensively used in interior decoration, the insides of the house can be decorated very well with bamboo. Many people use the bamboo for interior decoration. Bamboo is a
plant which has multiple uses. It is a plant which is widely respected in different cultures.
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