A shoot of the enigmatic bamboo species henon bamboo which flowers once every 120 years An unusual species of bamboo is about to flower for the first time in over 100 years, which could enable ...

Bamboo blossoms simultaneously across a number of forests in northeastern India every 48 or 50 years. Here's why this causes a major spike in the rat population and, ultimately, famine. The ...

Sometimes chasing a rumor is instructive, even if the story you thought you had doesn't pan out. Some years back, Ron helped unearth a rogue running bamboo growing under a hillside house and brought ...

I had always heard that flowering meant death to bamboo, but that's not always true. Many Northwest gardens contain bamboo, so it is important to recognize the significance of the flowering and to ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A rare environmental phenomenon is budding across central Virginia. Local bamboo plants are going through a flowering phase in their life cycles, which turns the ...

Have you noticed groovy groves of green bamboo are now boring walls of brown? The first time I spotted a dead-looking patch, I thought it was pretty odd since bamboo is a resilient species. Bamboo, ...

Traditionally associated with a rise in rat population, destruction of standing crops and advent of famine, there is no fun in flowering of the bamboo. NEW DELHI: Traditionally associated with a rise ...

Silchar, Jan. 14: The Mizoram government is planning a ban on paddy cultivation in the jhum pastures and hill slopes next year to check a possible menace of rodents, the number of which multiply after ...

Nagpur: Even as the forest department has floated tenders to remove clusters of bamboo plantations that have died due to gregarious flowering, demand is being raised to treat the potential forest fire ...

In remote corners of Sichuan Province, China, the arrow bamboo is acting strangely. It grows brown and scraggly with odd grass-like seed heads appearing amidst the foliage. The giant pandas that have ...