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Bamboo
Study the properties of bamboo as a structural material in an analogous way to wood products
Most species of bamboo grow in Asia and on islands of the Indian and Pacific oceans. cottage of Du Fu: bamboo grove Sagano: bamboo forest raft Japan: bamboo grove heavenly bamboo Japanese openwork basket
The differences between monocots and eudicots explained
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Study the properties of bamboo as a structural material in an analogous way to wood products
Learn about the properties of bamboo as a structural material.
Video: © Massachusetts Institute of Technology (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
The differences between monocots and eudicots explained
Some of the basic differences between monocotyledons and eudicotyledons.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Bamboo
Sven Samelius
Most species of bamboo grow in Asia and on islands of the Indian and Pacific oceans.
© Corbis
cottage of Du Fu: bamboo grove
Bamboo grove in the garden surrounding the cottage of Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, in...
Joan Lebold Cohen/Photo Researchers
Sagano: bamboo forest
Bamboo-bordered path, Sagano, Kyōto prefecture, Japan.
© Digital Vision/Getty Images
raft
Bamboo raft.
© Carl & Ann Purcell/Corbis RF
Japan: bamboo grove
Dense grove of bamboo in Japan.
© Tracey Kimmeskamp/Fotolia
heavenly bamboo
Heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestica).
BotBln
Japanese openwork basket
Japanese bamboo flower basket showing diagonal openwork plaiting; in the Musée du...
Courtesy of the Musée du Quai Branly (formely the Musée de l'Homme), Paris
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