bamboo flowers

bamboo flowers is a dreadful problem especially of NE India. Flowering of bamboo begins in September-October just after the South-West monsoon. When a bamboo flowers, as most of us know, it is in danger of dying. In local lore, when the bamboo flower ‘the rats feed on the flowers and seeds of the dying bamboo tree which activates a rapid birth rate among the rodents, which leads to the huge rat population feeding on agricultural crops in the fields and granaries and causing famine. Scientifically speaking the odd phenomena of bamboo flowering, is termed 'gregarious bamboo flowering' because the bamboo clumps flower all at the same time only once in the plants' lifetime. The reasons behind this strange occurrence are that bamboo plants die after flowering.