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Posted by: tlworkroom on 2008-11-18, 16:41:21
Bamboo needs huge amounts of water to grow, so it's found mostly in rainy forests or jungles of South East Asia. I'm not sure if there are any in South America in the Amazon jungles. Bamboo is an amazingly versitile plant, meaning that it can be used for a big number of different things. It grows hollow, so it can be used as structure support, kinda like a piece of lumber. With big enough poles of bamboo,you could actually build a house with it. But now, bamboo is also being used to make things like flooring, and also even clothes and rugs and fabrics. The bamboo is changes and made into a fiber, and then woven into different things, like wool or cotton can be. It's now a new source of such fabric---usually mixed with other fibers like cotton or rayon--that they consider it very good to use for 'green " construction. But it's pretty new to use so we don't know how long it will last as a fabric or construction materials that we are reprocessing it into here in America. |
