Bamboo | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-23

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo


00:01:46 1 Systematics and taxonomy
00:03:18 2 Distribution
00:05:27 3 Ecology
00:10:45 4 Mass flowering
00:17:59 5 Animal diet
00:18:56 6 Allergenic potential
00:19:42 7 Cultivation
00:20:08 7.1 Commercial timber
00:20:32 7.2 Harvesting
00:22:53 7.3 Leaching
00:24:40 7.4 Maintenance of spreading runners
00:27:15 7.5 Lucky bamboo
00:27:56 7.6 Invasive species
00:28:26 8 Uses
00:28:35 8.1 Culinary
00:32:22 8.1.1 Kitchenware
00:33:20 8.2 Fuel
00:33:40 8.3 Writing pen
00:34:12 9 Bambooworking
00:34:32 9.1 Construction
00:41:16 9.2 Textiles
00:42:36 9.3 As a writing surface
00:45:08 9.4 Weapons
00:46:29 9.5 Musical instruments
00:46:38 9.6 Other uses
00:49:27 10 Symbolism and culture
00:51:41 10.1 Attributions of character
00:55:16 10.2 In mythology
00:58:42 11 See also



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SUMMARY
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The bamboos  (listen) are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. The word "bamboo" comes from the Dutch and/or Portuguese languages, which probably borrowed it from Malay.
In bamboo, as in other grasses, the internodal regions of the stem are usually hollow and the vascular bundles in the cross-section are scattered throughout the stem instead of in a cylindrical arrangement. The dicotyledonous woody xylem is also absent. The absence of secondary growth wood causes the stems of monocots, including the palms and large bamboos, to be columnar rather than tapering.Bamboos include some of the fastest-growing plants in the world, due to a unique rhizome-dependent system. Certain species of bamboo can grow 91 cm (36 in) within a 24-hour period, at a rate of almost 4 cm (1.6 in) an hour (a growth around 1 mm every 90 seconds, or 1 inch every 40 minutes).  Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family.
Bamboos are of notable economic and cultural significance in South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, being used for building materials, as a food source, and as a versatile raw product.  Bamboo has a higher specific compressive strength than wood, brick or concrete, and a specific tensile strength that rivals steel.