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Plants & Trees
Bamboo
Giant grass, engineered by evolution · Phyllostachys
Technically a grass. Hollow, fiber-reinforced internodes give bamboo a strength-to-weight ratio that rivals steel, and the rhizome connects a whole grove as a single clonal organism.
Key specifications
Growth rate
up to 91 cm / day
Tensile strength
~28,000 psi
Culm to full height
40 – 60 days
Flowering cycle
every 60 – 120 yr
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