"When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and destruction will soon follow ... Once all the seed has been eaten the rats move onto crops, destroying local agriculture and causing widespread famine. This ...
Grown throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas, bamboo refers to any one of about 1,450 species in the Poaceae family. Most varieties of bamboo are incredibly hardy, and grow well in both ...
Kwanzaa runs from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, and is an annual celebration of African American culture culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, or the Feast of Faith and Giving. This year Songhai ...
But such general flowering events require a longer dry spell of around 30 days to occur. This explains why durians tend to flower multiple times a year, while synchronised flowering across species ...