Sem najdu nekaj zanimivih člankov o cvetenju in umiranju bambusa:
Hundreds of giant pandas in western China could die from starvation because the bamboo plants they eat have begun to flower and die back.
Wardens in the north-western province of Gansu are to monitor the 102 pandas in the Baishuijiang State nature reserve for signs of hunger after the arrow bamboo in the region began a potentially devastating flowering and dying-back phase. This occurs once every 60 years.......
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/ ... click=true
Bamboo flowers only rarely, (sometimes there’s more than a person’s lifetime between flowerings) and when it does, it takes so much energy from the plant it often dies. People try various things to save them, like cutting back the culms and fertilizing generously, and sometimes that works......
http://www.americanbamboo.org/FAQ.html