Henon bamboo flowers only once every 120 years then vanishes for years, and researchers have no idea how it comes back to life.
An unusual species of bamboo is about to flower for the first time in over 100 years, which could enable researchers to find out more about its mysterious regeneration process.
This could mean that many dense fields of bamboo may be hard to regenerate, and may disappear and be replaced by meadows. "Scientists 120 years ago did not describe the flowering of this species very well," first author Toshihiro Yamada, a conservation biologist and forest ecologist at Hiroshima University, told Live Science"Therefore, we do not know much about the flowering ecology and regeneration process of this bamboo species."
Yamada said it is possible that the bamboo regenerates underground, eventually sprouting into new individual culms. After these culms are established, the bamboo would then populate vigorously to compensate for its inefficient reproduction.
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