Walking in the Forest
I went for a walk in a bamboo forest and learned several things.
Bamboo is a hard grass that looks like wood (so it is not exactly a tree). It doesn’t grow in volume, and it doesn’t have growth rings.
The average height of bamboo is 20 meters. Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant in the world. It can grow up to 60 cm per day. After the bamboo shoots appear, the growth in length is complete in 50–70 days.
A bamboo ‘tree’ absorbs about 5.4 kg of CO2 annually. This is 4 times more than a normal tree.
Bamboo releases plenty of phytoncides, which have various positive effects on humans, such as anti-inflammation, anti-bacterial, and stress control.
This explains the health benefits of ‘forest bathing’, which can also be gained from hiking other types of forest.