Bamboo Plants - Versatile And Useful

Bamboo plants are very useful in Asian countries. They provide food, shelter and money to folks in rural areas. Bamboo shoots are used on oriental tables for a sumptuous meal of vegetables; and their long and rounded culms are employed as a foundation for a habitable hut in the middle of a rice field or are cut and trimmed to make decent home furniture.

Today, these plants have added an extra usefulness for Asian people. They became money generating raw materials for export. Bamboo, branded as a “poor man’s timber,” now create a wealthy man out of a poor.
 
First world countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and other European countries are importing goods made out of these plants. Bamboo furniture, bamboo blinds, bamboo hardwood floorings, and bamboo fencing are just a few among the many products created out of bamboo culms. Notable designers and wood craftsmen are now also into designing and creating elegant furniture to do up oriental inspired homes.

Bamboo is native to Asian countries, particularly the tropical areas, although there are a few species that can be found in the United States. They grow running or clumping, and multiply incredibly fast, which is why many people regard them (especially the running type) as weeds. When trimmed regularly, however, bamboo plants can be passable as base for landscape for they create willowy movements on the backdrop.

Bamboo has been a basis for many Asian legends and folklores, one of which is the legend about the first man and woman, Malakas and Maganda. In this legend, the Adam and Eve of the Orient came from a single bamboo clum split into halves. Well today, every time a planter chopped a bamboo plant into two, he does not expect a man and a woman to come out of it; he expects wealth to come his way because of its versatility and usefulness.