With such direct exposure, the only way of preventing this would be by injecting it with chemical formulae of varying levels of environmental acceptability. Effective treatment of bamboo by soaking is not possible, because the cellular structure admits moisture primarily only in a longitudinal direction. Even slightly viscous liquids, such as thin oil, have difficulty in penetrating the cellular structure, and salt water suffers the same fate, plus it creates an increased likelihood of hydroscopic-related fungus attack. The educational process must expand concurrently with the increasing availability of the resource. These two cousins, Golden being the more common, are fairly thin-walled, yet if properly harvested and treated, are very useful for light structures.
Shoots are edible but inferior.
This is an attractive, decorative, vigorous clumper, but is a little hard to control if let go for some years. It is superior as a construction species to the two abovementioned types, again, subject to correct harvesting procedures. Easy to control if tended annually. Multiple asterisks denote that the species is more highly valued than most others in its category. Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on earth.