Bamboo is a low cost product manufactured from bamboo. It is designed to be a replacement for wood preferably used when high load bearing strength is not required. These products consist of multiple layers of bamboo engineered to have water resistance on its top layer and hardness on the middle layers.
Bamboo can be utilized for building materials as a substitute for wood or steel, used for scaffolding, bridges and houses. Like wood, bamboo has a natural composite material with a high strength-to-weight ratio. Bamboo has likewise compressive strength than wood, brick or concrete and a tensile strength similar to steel.
(lifted from the Guiness Book of World Record)
The world record for the fastest growing plant belongs to certain species of the 45 genera of bamboo, which have been found to grow at up to 91 cm (35 in) per day or at a rate of 0.00003 km/h (0.00002 mph).
According to the RHS Dictionary of Gardening, there are approximately 1,000 species of bamboos. The tallest recorded in the tropics was reportedly 40 m (130 ft), in Europe and the USA 20-30 m (65-98 ft) has been the tallest.
