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Sensitive nature and bamboo

Bamboo grove at Villa Erba 2011
Light installation in the Bambouseraie of Villa Erba. Orticolario 2011. Ph. Dario Fusaro

Once upon a time there was a bamboo called Madake, dense, giant and robust that when it bloomed, it bloomed everywhere at the same time.

No man could ever see this bamboo bloom twice, because it did so only every 120 years.

It is not a magic, nor a fairy tale, but the Phyllostachys bambusoides.

Sources:
nationalgeographic.it
“La matematica del bambù”
maddmaths.simai.eu
“La matematica del bambù”
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