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- Bamboo - characteristics of the asian lucky plant
- Bamboo or wood?
- Eating and building vegetarian food
- Tips & Tricks
Bamboo - characteristics of the asian lucky plant
Whether small lucky charms, huge protective plants or as bamboo shoots on the plate - the bamboo is in size, lightness and strength a high-tech material of nature: it is stable, light, elastic and edible
Phyllostachys aureosulcata - botanically, the bamboo belongs to the family of sweet grasses. Around 115 bamboo families (Bambusae) grow worldwide with a total of about 1300 species.
Bamboo or wood?
The bamboo family includes all tree- or shrub-like grasses with a persistent, woody or branched trunk. The technical characteristics of bamboo are very similar to those of wood. While wood has a hard core and softens to the outside, bamboo is hard on the outside and soft on the inside - a much more stable construction.
Eating and building vegetarian food
Not only as a building material, but also as food, the bamboo is used in many ways. For example, bamboo is used in many Asian dishes similar to asparagus. Various bamboo species are bred and cultivated in plantations:
Tips & Tricks
Boil bamboo before consumption to neutralize the toxic hydrogen cyanide / link]. Since bamboos bloom at most once every 80 years, bamboo rice, the seed of the bamboo plant, is rarely on the menu.