What is the life cycle of bamboo?

Answer 1

· Reproduction

• Bamboo colonies can quickly cover many acres reproducing by seed and by sending out underground runners called rhizomes that originate from a central fibrous root mass. Each cane is a genetic clone of the others and shares a single original parent plant that was propagated from a rhizome cutting or a seed.

Growth

• Bamboo shoots that rise from underground rhizomes are either clumping or running. The clumping types have short underground rhizomes and form dense clumps of many canes. The running types send out long rhizomes that sprout clumps of canes along their lengths. If a rhizome is severed, the individual clumps will survive and remain genetic copies.

Flowering

• Each cane in a mature colony of bamboo trees will flower at the same time. Some types flower annually, die back and recover. Other types flower once every few years and die off after going to seed. Japanese timber bamboo flowers once every 120 years. Every plant that is a clone of the same parent will flower at the same time, regardless of location.

Answer 2

First it shoots which is when you can see the stems coming up from the ground. Then is culms which is when they grow to their maximum height. Then spreading which is when the bamboo spreads the seeds to make more. Then it flowers, which only certain species will do this.