"Bamboo, which has been around for over 200 million years, is the fastest growing plant on earth.
The needle in Alexander Graham Bell's first phonograph was made of bamboo.
In 1882, Thomas Edison used bamboo as filaments in the world's first light bulb manufacturing.
A typical bamboo has a tensile strength of 28,000 per square inch vs. 23,000 for steel. That makes it one of the strongest materials in the world when it comes to tension structure.
*Bamboo is the most important plant in a giant panda's life. Pandas live in cold and rainy bamboo forests high in the mountains of western China. They spend at least 12 hours each day eating bamboo. Because bamboo is so low in nutrients, pandas eat as much as 84 pounds (38 kilograms) of it each day."