Lucky bamboo can also go for a long time with little or no fertilizer. Watering is a little trickier. Plants will survive for long periods with the bottoms of the stalks in only water or supported ...

Bamboo has long been known as the Chinese symbol for strength, due to its fast growth and resilience. Lucky bamboo, which is actually a member of the dracaena family and Number of stalks indicates ...

Sippawat found the first specimens of the new species in Asian bamboo stalks; within their own little silk-lined tubular burrows inside either the bamboo’s branch stubs or culms. (The culm is ...

Chinese history experts say that at some point between 600 A.D. and 900 A.D., Chinese alchemists took that idea to the next level by filling bamboo shoots with gunpowder made from saltpeter ...

Their nests inside the bamboo trees range from 2–3 cm in size and "feature a silk-lined tubular burrow, either in the branch stub or in the middle of the bamboo culms." ...