Mysterious bamboo flowers 100 years bloom once

Bamboo has flowers even more results - but not everyone has the opportunity to admire this "one hundred years" one.

Bamboo flowers - flowers bloom only once in a lifetime

The Vietnamese people are probably too familiar with the image of the village of the bamboo village. However, not everyone, especially those who live in the city since childhood, know that bamboo plants bloom, even fruit.

Bamboo flower - flower "one hundred years blooming once"

Bamboo is the common name for the botanical group of plants . Around the world there are about 1,200 species of bamboo and all possess the fastest growth rates among woody plants.

While other species take tens of years to reach large sizes, bamboo species need only about 5 years.

Although it is fast growing, bamboo only blooms once in a period of 60-100 years - a life span of a lifetime.

Bamboo flowers often hatch into bunches, are light yellow. However, the color of bamboo flowers will vary depending on the species. Bamboo flower results, forming bamboo fruit - also called "bamboo rice" .

Bamboo flower - a lifelong flower only once.

However, when bamboo flowers, the result is also the last moment of this plant because bamboo will soon die and cannot be revived.

The cause of this phenomenon has not been explained yet, but it is theorized that the process of flowering makes bamboo consume a huge amount of energy, making it impossible for the tree to continue to survive after flowering.

Some others think that this is the behavior of this tree: old bamboo will make room for seedlings to grow.

Not only flowers, bamboo also produces fruit.

Don't stop there, you have good - all the trees in the same bamboo cluster will bloom at the same time . This phenomenon is also known as flowering in groups .

Even if the trees in the bamboo cluster are grown elsewhere, with different geographical conditions, they will still bloom at the same time. According to some experts, the cause of this phenomenon is because these plants will share a genetic origin with the mother plant , so the time of flowering is somewhat similar.

And conceptions associated with bamboo flowers

It's rare, but the phenomenon of blooming bamboo is considered to be an omen in some countries, typically India. The reason is because when blooming bamboo flowers attract many rodents, typically mice.

Bamboo flowers are considered ominous in some parts of the world.

Therefore, bamboo flowers appear will cause the mouse to proliferate vertically. After eating all the bamboo, they will attack other plants. Therefore, in some areas, bamboo flowers often lead to hunger and disease.

The history of this country also proved it. In October 1958, the Indian government at that time rejected the request for financial aid from Mizoram prefecture, when the county said that the flowering bamboo would make the rat pandemic appear. As a result, in 1959, the area suffered from hunger and severe drought.

In the Indian epic Mahabharata, bamboo blooms are also a bad omen, associated with the story of the evil king Jayadrath. King Jayadrath then kidnapped Draupadi - a beautiful woman and tortured her during the trip.

Draupadi gave the curse, the king that his reign will soon fade away, like the flamboyant bamboos that suddenly die after flowering.

Even in Vietnam, bamboo blooms are considered bad. Many people believe that with most plants, when flowering it is also full of vitality.

Only bamboo and bamboo species, on the other hand, bloom in synonymous with about to die. Therefore, encountering bamboo flowers is considered an unfortunate thing.

However, some people argue that bamboo froze after flowering is a rare sight.

According to the Asian concept, bamboo is the symbol of the model of the noble person, because this tree is hard but still soft and falls without breaking, the heart is empty like the spirit of natural freedom, not infatuated with the position and material . And like a military man, bamboo and bamboo flowers stand still, not drooping like other flowers.