Bamboo

bamboo
Bamboo is a grass with more than 1,000 species. These vary in size, some plants being as small as one foot tall while others can grow up to 130 feet tall. Some species can grow one foot per day! Bamboo can be useful or decorative. It can be used for food and medicine as well as building material and furniture. Thomas Edison experimented with more than 100 varieties of bamboo when trying to come up with a filament for the first electric light bulb.