Thick & Thin Bamboo (Properties, Spectroscopy, Microscopy)

Abstract

Bamboo is renowned as one of the most crucial nontimber resources after timber and rattan. It is recorded as one of the fastest growing woody plants as it can be annually renewed with effective management, resulting to its high productivity and application in various industries. Nowadays, bamboo is acknowledged as a vital resource in the world market, mainly in its application in end-product manufacturing, such as plywood, vegetable containers, parqueting, and even paper pulps (Asari, & Suratman, 2010). In Malaysia, bamboo is widely used as essential materials for a bamboo basket, joss-sticks, handicraft products, toothpicks, chopsticks, bamboo blinds, joss papers and cage-making (Azmy et al., 2004). Environmentally, the matured bamboo trees with developed roots and rhizomes are desired in enduring soil corruption or erosion (Asari, & Suratman, 2010).