Green Forest

Bamboo

The German name - Bambus, English - Bamboo. Grows in tropics and subtropics everywhere, forming the whole thickets or woods. The bamboo formally is not a tree. It concerns family of cereals, and its treelike tubular stalk is the hardened culm reaching at some kinds of 40 m in height and 30 sm in diameter.

Natural colour of a bamboo - zolotisto-straw, alternating more dark cross-section strips in the locations of knots of a stalk. Structure homogeneous, dense.

The most important and most known kind is meeting in East Indies В arundinacca Willd which trunks reach 25 m. of height and a thickness in 20 - 30 with. At the basis. Application of trunks extremely variously: older go on construction of houses, younger on manufacture of house utensils, the weapon and so forth; from trunks prepare every possible ware, troughs, a trench and so forth; Them use also on dispatch gummigut (a paint received from soft juice some tropical plant from family Garcinieae or Guttiferae). From thin (in 2 - 4 centimetres) trunks are manufactured in Europe canes.

From wooden fibres of young runaways prepare in China a dense, so-called Chinese silk paper on which and in Europe sometimes print drawings. In knots of old trunks В arundinacca come across original the allocation, consisting, mainly, from silicon (86 %), having sweetish taste and known under the name of bamboo sugar or the saltpeter, used in Europe in porcelain manufacture and for polishing. Similarly В arundinacca, other kinds, e.g., South American В Guadua Humbet Bonpl are used also.

And В Tagoara Mart. Features of a structure of a bamboo do not allow to use it in a natural kind for manufacturing of massive products. Therefore parquet laths from a bamboo stick together industrially from separate strips. The bamboo is well steady against mechanical and climatic influences. At polishing demands correct selection of abrasive materials and sequence of their application.