WHY BAMBOO?
Bamboo is also an essential resource for many other organisms living in our soils. The most common organism is invertebrates, the common earthworms. Earthworms consume the bamboo leaves and convert the organic matter into rich soil nutrients.
Bamboo is an important grass (poaceae) inextricably linked to our human societies, providing the resource for shelter, food, animal feed, paper, composite and much more. The range of its use is hardly rivaled in the plant kingdom. It is regarded as the plant of a thousand uses.
Bamboo are complex plants that can be difficult to identify or classify, but given its ecological and economic importance, correct identification is critical to their conservation and development and a robust phylogenetic classification system underpins identification. At Carbon Xchange, we present a history of bamboo classification, discuss bamboo habitat and silviculture. We also present an up to date classification of bamboo based on synthesis of the most recent systematic work in this fascinating and charismatic group of giant grasses.
Bamboo a versatile
plant
Bamboo can grow in all types of soil conditions and serve as a green solar system to harvest carbon from the atmosphere to draw down into the soil to provide food for soil microorganism within root cells known as rhizophagy symbiosis. This is a cycle process whereby plants obtain nutrients from symbiotic bacteria that alternate between a root intracellular endophytic phase and a free-living soil phase.