Bamboo

Common Name: Bamboo (Angiosperm)
Scientific Name: Bambusicola thoracicus

• Bamboo is a monocot
• Angiosperm
• It is a perennial plant
• Major food source of: the giant panda, the red panda, and the bamboo lemur
• Found anywhere from cold mountains to hot, tropical areas
• Internodal regions of the stem are hollow
• Scattered throughout the stem are the vascular bundles
• Fastest growing plant on Earth
• Bamboo flowers about once a century
• FUN FACT: "A suspension bridge on the river in China is 250 yard long, 9 foot wide and rests entirely on bamboo cables fastened over the water. It doesn't have a single nail or piece of iron in it." (http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/bamboowall/bamboofacts.html)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo#Ecology

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/bamboowall/bamboofacts.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Bamboo