Bamboo blossom is a natural phenomenon in which the bamboos of a place will blossom and become hung with bamboo seeds. In China and India, "bamboo blossom" was traditionally seen as a curse or an indication of a starvation coming.
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Famous quotes containing the words bamboo and/or blossom:
“A bamboo stick makes a good child.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Magnified apples appear and disappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)