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  • Bamboo is monocarpic (true bamboo at least.). The huge clonal colony flowers once and dies, even below ground. The seeds that fall grow the next generation.

    Bamboo species tend to all flower at the same time at the end of a years or decades long cycle. This bottlenecks how much it can spread clonally (underground roots) but gives it another method to spread.

    Rats, mice, and other rodents eat the seeds, so there is some ecosystem regulation already

    Places with good habitat but no native bamboos like Hawaii have really bad problems with colonies taking over huge areas