Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Discover the Benefits of Bamboo Plants

By : David de Castro


Bamboo plants is not just an ordinary grass, it plays a major role in our environment and to the thousands of people and animals. This plant became popular because of its advantages and very usable resource. Our environments are being destroyed, our ozone layer thins, forest disappears and deserts form, and many disease rages. But bamboo plant is on the move to help us; bamboo has an element in balancing the oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on this planet and viable replacement for woods. So you don’t need to cut more trees to the forest.

Bamboo is very cheap resource which makes it a huge industry. Bamboo is used to build houses and even bridges. It also used to produce fine furniture, carpets, matt, shades, fences, valuable art and many other things. Bamboo is also a source of food; its new shoots are discovered as a great source of fiber and many other nutrients in building our body resistance. There’s more don’t forget the luck given by bamboo. In China you can find it almost in any household because the legend says it brings luck to the bearer and energizes the place where it is. But hold, Lucky Bamboo is not a bamboo but just a simple house plant. However it looks like bamboo that’s why we keep calling it Lucky Bamboo.

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