Whether small lucky charms, giant protective plants or as bamboo shoots on the plate - the bamboo is a high-tech material of nature in size, lightness and strength: It is stable, light, elastic and edible
Phyllostachys Aureosulcata - botanically, bamboo belongs to the grass family. Around 115 bamboo families (Bambusae) with a total of around 1300 species grow worldwide.
bamboo or wood?
The bamboo family includes all tree or shrub-like grasses with a perennial, woody or branched stem. The technical properties of bamboo are very similar to those of wood. While wood has a hard core and softens on the outside, bamboo is hard on the outside and soft on the inside - a much sturdier construction.
Eat and build vegetarian
Bamboo is not only used as a building material, but also as food. Bamboo is used in numerous Asian dishes, similar to asparagus here. Various types of bamboo are bred and cultivated in plantations for this purpose:
- dendrocalmus
- gigantochloa
- Phyllostachys
tips and tricks
Boil bamboo before eating to neutralize the toxic hydrocyanic acid. Since bamboos bloom at most once every 80 years, bamboo rice, the seed of the bamboo plant, is therefore rarely on the menu.