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Bamboo Growth and Uses in East Asia Described
A colonial-era account explains bamboo reaching fifty to eighty feet in a single year, and its wood becoming hard and elastic in the second year. One acre of thriving bamboo may yield as much wood as ten or fifteen ordinary trees. Joints sealable for water vessels. bamboo mats, baskets, frame work for slender buildings. useful for carts, boat rigging, and rural applications. The juice acar nambu is a valued medicine among the Haims. Bamboo grows in stools of twenty or thirty, forming arches that shade sunlit interiors, with green then pale yellow reeds. described as a model for Gothic arches.