Bamboo is a vastly interesting plant. It adds spiritual qualities to the sometimes loneliness of gardening, so many lessons a man can learn from a mere grass. Some species set seed only once in a hundred years, and there after die, covering the forest floor with new hopes, new possibilities of new natural variety, and color. The reproductive cycles of others are unknown as there is no record or witness of flowering.
Bamboo has the ability to assume an entirely different behavior and appearance by the addition of water, or changes in soil types and nutrients.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllostachys_aureosulcata
