Why I Hate Pandas and You Should Too

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9. Bamboo declining in the wild?

Fat chance, as anyone who has tried to corral a patch of ornamental bamboo in the yard without a few feet of buried concrete barrier knows.

What bamboo does do, and has done recently, is go into a flowering period, every single plant of the same genetic stock, in whatever climate it has been transplanted into. After flowering, it dies.

The record for bamboo growth in a single day is nearly four feet. When new plants start from the seeds of the old, they can reach full size in four months, depending on growing conditions. After that, the changes in the plant are related to maturity rather than increased height or width.