You can often find fresh bamboo shoots in Asian food stores, but they’re not easy to prepare as they’re protected by many layers of overlapping, brown husk covered in fine, sharp hairs.

more than 100 times faster than the desktop 3D printers available for home use and 60 times faster than the world's fastest-growing species of bamboo. Everything the heat touches hardens into a ...

The hachiku bamboo plant expands by sending out underground stems, which can grow at a rate of about 2 meters per year. The plant then essentially creates clones of itself by sending up shoots ...