Common basketmaking material favored for its flexibility, durability and aesthetic quality Woody grass, naturally abundant in tropical countries and particularly suited to the climate of the Philippines Regenerates easily near creeks, rivers and forests This grass can be processed into strips, spokes or poles, used with its bark on or stripped Plain bamboo items without dyes and elaborate attachments are easily washed by submerging in water and gently rubbing with a soft cloth; air dry thoroughly
Bamboo is a tall tropical plant with hard, hollow stems. The young shoots of the plant can be eaten and the stems are used to make furniture. huts with walls of bamboo. bamboo shoots. Any of the tall, treelike grasses, found in tropical and subtropical to mild temperate regions, that make up the subfamily Bambusoideae, family Poaceae (or Gramineae). Bamboos are giant, fast-growing grasses with woody stems. A few species of the genus Arundinaria are native to the southern U.S., where they form dense canebrakes along riverbanks and in marshy areas. The woody, hollow aerial stems grow in branching clusters from a thick rhizome, often forming a dense undergrowth that excludes other plants. All parts of the bamboo are used, for purposes including food, livestock fodder, fine-quality paper, construction materials, and medicines. Bamboos also have ornamental use in landscape gardens
Bamboo--which is a type of grass, not a tree--is used for furniture in the East, and came to the Occident in waves of Chinese influence In the 18th Century it was so important that the characteristic appearance of the bamboo was simulated in the wood turnings in England and America
woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles