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Monday, September 6, 2010
Hawaiian-grown Bamboo for Building
Some aspects of bamboo you're likely to know while others are unsung. Bamboo is an excellent building and furniture material. It continues to be traditionally utilized for decorative purposes in varied forms of art. Bamboo is also used for making utensils, fiber, paper, fuel, and countless small objects. Common hardwoods can take 50 years or more to mature while bamboo, one of the oldest plants on Earth, takes only five to six years.
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