The highest grass on the planet and in combination the most fast-growing cereal is the family bamboo. Per day the bamboo can add from 30 to 100 cm in growth.
Instruction
1. Bamboos call about 100 childbirth and about 600 species of the grassy plants similar in appearance and the internal building. Their main distinctive sign is the structure of a sheet plate. The leaf at a bamboo linear or uzkoovalny, does not form the vagina covering a stalk in the lower part as it occurs at the majority of cereals. One more difference from cereals is the ability of a stalk of a bamboo to branch. Also the curling bamboo forms, and its climbing versions are known.
2. In favorable conditions which for bamboo the high humidity and temperature are, this cereal can grow per day by 2 meters. So quickly the bamboo grows in Vietnam. Most of people will tell that the grass grows silently, but residents of this country will disprove such words. It is possible to hear and see growth of a bamboo. In the mornings this plant reaches the growth rate of 1 mm a minute.
3. The bamboo stalk during active growth can overcome obstacles in the form of concrete and asphalt of quite considerable thickness. The countries of Southeast Asia practiced a sophisticated type of an execution when the criminal was tied over ready couch a bamboo allotment. Stalks pierced the criminal's body through, starting in growth, and there came very painful death.
4. The period of growth of bamboos is limited, they grow only within 30-40 days from the origin. At the same time growth of stalks and leaves happens during this period continuously, and day and night, though to different speed. The majority of trees, for example, grows only 1 month in a year, and the average speed of their growth is 0.6 mm per day. For this limited period of time the stalks of a bamboo can reach height from 30 to 40 meters, with a diameter of 25-30 cm. There is a certificate on the huge bamboo which grew on Java Island - its height was 51 meters.
5. The bamboo reaches a maturity only in 28-60 years, depending on growth conditions. In this period the bamboo begins to form krone, to branch, blossom and fructify. Depending on a look, blossoming and fructification can lasts from 2-3 seasons to 9 years. During this time the plant spends all nutrients reserved for long life and subsequently perishes. The plants similar to a bamboo call monokarpik: they can blossom and bear fruits only once for the long life, and perish right after it. At different types of a bamboo variously blossoming period time, but is considered to be cycles lasting 33, 66 and 120 years for a basis. Through these periods of time a bamboo, having grown up huge peduncles, perishes.