A large group of fast-growing woody grasses, most cultivated commercially from genera such as Phyllostachys, Bambusa and Dendrocalamus, grown across East and Southeast Asia, South Asia and parts of Africa and the Americas both in managed plantations and in traditional smallholder groves. Prized for extremely rapid growth and a strong, lightweight, easily worked stem, farmed bamboo supplies construction material, scaffolding, furniture, paper pulp, textile fiber and food in the form of edible shoots, making it one of the most versatile plants grown as an agricultural and industrial crop. China is the dominant producer and processor of commercial bamboo, and the plant's fast regrowth after harvest has drawn interest as a renewable alternative to slower-growing timber species.
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1. Bamboo (Wikipedia)
- lead: mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants
- lead: used for building materials, as a food source, and as a raw product
- lead: used for building materials and as a raw product
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Wikipedialead description or Wikipedia lead (crop-class)
Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.
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Prized for extremely rapid growth and a strong, lightweight, easily worked stem, farmed bamboo supplies construction material, scaffolding, furniture, paper pulp, textile fiber and food in the form of edible shoots, making it one of the most versatile plants grown as an agricultural and industrial crop.
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