Oval bamboo basket

Description

Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world. Being evergreen, fast-growing, tall, straight, and very flexible, the plant has for centuries come to represent the strong, straightforward, but resilient character of the Vietnamese. The bamboo is probably the plant with the widest array of uses in the world. When treated, bamboo is a very hard wood which is both lightweight and exceptionally tough and can be made into furniture, home decorations, lawn and garden accessories, fences, poles, hats, martial arts weapons, and scaffolding for construction, woven as handicrafts or baskets, and used as a substitute for steel to reinforce ***** is also used to build bridges, toilets, walking sticks, canoes, tableware, fishing rods, smoking pipes, and kite frames. Of the many plant species in Viet Nam, probably none is as widely distributed and as close to the life of the people as the bamboo. There are estimated to be **0, **0 square miles of bamboo forests and nearly half of all villages across the country grow bamboo