That's nothing.
You could sit in a bamboo hut wearing clothes made from bamboo, sitting on bamboo furniture, using bamboo chopsticks to eat bamboo out of bamboo bowls.
You could sit in a bamboo hut wearing clothes made from bamboo, sitting on bamboo furniture, using bamboo chopsticks to eat bamboo out of bamboo bowls.
The American Chestnut was a "cradle to grave" tree - from a baby rocked in a chestnut crib, living in a chestnut house with chestnut furniture and shingled with chestnut bark, warmed by a chestnut fire, entertained by a chestnut fiddle, until finally ending as a body buried in a chestnut casket.
Plus, chestnut nuts were food for you, for your pigs, and for the wild game you hunted.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2015/ra/c5ra1238...
Probably a decade before it makes its way to a price point I can afford.
As I said in here, Jerry and I actually could taste the difference between them and paper filters, in a Triangle Test.
https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/google-busts-a-coffee-my...
You could definitely eat chestnut porridge from a chestnut bowl with a chestnut spoon, so the clothing is the main differentiator and if chestnut were here today, I’m sure they’d be using it for clothing.
Rayon / viscose is basically: you take some cellulosic material (wood pulp, could be bamboo pulp, whatever) and dissolve it in a strong basic solution. You now have cellulose in solution. Then, you shoot it out of tiny holes to make almost 100% cellulose fibers of whatever diameter (the hole size). Then you make this into yarns and weave it into something. You can make it seem like silk, cotton, wool, whatever.
I don't think the feedstock has much to do with it (though lignin-containing vs. not is an issue).
This resilience applies to the part below ground too, and they're full of water, so it's a bit like trying to dig watermelons out of the ground, but if inevitably split one while digging, and you miss a bit it's just going to grow again, and if you take too long between bouts vs the plant (as with bamboo it's unlikely to be a 1-day affair for a reasonable size clump), some of the bits you cut will have broken down and started to rot, so the ground will be soggy and smell horrible.
Can you summarize what you've learned?
I'm not even entirely sure that the act of consuming it yields more calories from consumption than consumed in exertion for humans.
Most species that subsist on bamboo are sedentary and spend significant fractions of their time and energy simply masticating.
There's more than enough calories to sustain life in a Thai green curry with bamboo in it ;-)
IANATL (I am not a tree lawyer) but do browse /r/treelaw for fun