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		Cerium on Nov 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plants can grow quickly or accurately, but not bot... For bamboo you see the fast part, but not the slow part. The shoots are prepared over a number of months where all the nodes are made underground. Then when it is ready the space between the nodes is added causing the very fast telescoping action.

warent on Nov 14, 2020 [–]

Your description makes bamboo sound like some kind of fascinating alien technology/ organism, I love it.

zinekeller on Nov 14, 2020 | [–]

Japan agrees! (or at least their folktale story does) [1]

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Bamboo_Cutte...

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