bamboo tree

Actually Bamboo is not a plant and a type of plant that is foreign to the Indonesian Society, bamboo is also found in many countries in the world especially found in tropical regions such as in the continent of Asia, Africa, America and even in Australia. Bamboo itself is very familiar in the environment of Indonesian people, especially in rural areas or Dusun who are accustomed to using the needs of life that has been available, such as bamboo used for building materials, poles, walls, roofs, kitchen equipment, musical instruments to be used as food.

In the world of bamboo trees has 75 genera (red-clans or classification cluster) consisting of 1500 species of bamboo, and 125 species of which are found in Indonesia and grow with various types of climate, such as rainfall types A, B, C, D to E is based classification (red-according to the Schmidt and Ferguson classification) or wet to dry climate, and usually the wetter the climate type, the more the number of bamboo species, because bamboo is a plant that needs a lot of water.

As a plant that has many benefits and important for life, such as bamboo root roots can serve as an erosion barrier to prevent the danger of flooding, to play a toxic waste due to mercury poisoning, this root part that filters the water exposed to waste through the fibers of the roots, and capable accommodating springs that are useful as well water supply.

Both old and young bamboo stems are very useful for various purposes, whether used as Traditional necessities such as building a house, from roofs, walls, kitchen equipment to traditional musical instruments, as well as used as modern raw materials for both construction and non construction, we can see for yourself the results of furniture products made of bamboo minimalist and sold in the market.

Bamboo leaves also have the benefits of being used as a food wrapping tool, even used as a traditional medicine for fever in children, because bamboo has a substance that is cooling content. Likewise bamboo shoots or shoots or also known by the name of bamboo trubus is a young bamboo bud that grows from the ground, this bamboo shoot comes from the roots of rhizon or his books, usually bamboo shoots in the consumption when the bamboo buds aged 1 - 5 months.

This means that bamboo trees have ecological and industrial benefits, ecologically bamboo plants have functions such as increasing the volume of underground water, land conservation, environmental improvement and bamboo properties as earthquake prisoners, especially earthquake prone areas, and bamboo industry widely used as raw materials both traditionally and modernly, this raw material is a product or uniformity of industrial raw materials source, given the increasingly rare wood potential, and this takes a long time for rehabilitation, while bamboo in general only requires age 4-5 years can be processed again.