Does bamboo bloom in spring or winter?

Bamboo blossoms foretell death. Because bamboo is a flowering plant, it naturally blooms and bears fruit. But bamboo doesn't blossom and bear fruit every year like other flowering plants.

Bamboo flowering is rare. After flowering, green leaves wither, branches wither and die in batches, so some superstitious people mistakenly think that bamboo flowering is an "ominous sign".

In fact, bamboo flowering is a physiological phenomenon, which generally occurs in bamboo gardens with long-term drought, soil hardening, overgrown weeds and old whips. This is because bamboo is seriously short of water and nutrition, photosynthesis is weakened, nitrogen metabolism is reduced, and sugar concentration is correspondingly increased, resulting in a high sugar-nitrogen ratio, which creates conditions for the formation and flowering of flower buds. Therefore, the flowering of bamboo is caused by poor growth environment.

As for the flowering cycle, the length of the flowering cycle is different due to different bamboo species, which is also influenced by heredity. Some bamboos only bloom for more than ten years or decades.