Right or wrong: Is bamboo harder than oak?
Yes, that’s right, bamboo is actually harder than oak. To determine the degree of hardness of wood, there is a special process in which a steel ball is pressed into the wood with certain force. Then the penetration depth is measured and the hardness of the wood is calculated. In this way, all tree species, including bamboo, can be compared and classified. The result: bamboo surpasses oak and many other woods in hardness.
Remarkably, bamboo is botanically not a tree, but a grass. It has amazing properties, such as elasticity and stability, which is why more and more products are made of bamboo, including parquet floors, furniture, kitchen tools and even bicycle frames. In addition, bamboo is a leader in sustainability and is the fastest growing plant on the planet. While trees need decades to grow, a bamboo cane reaches its full height of up to 35 meters in just 4 years and then hardens. This makes bamboo an ecological and cost-effective raw material.