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In China and India, "bamboo blossom" was traditionally seen as a curse or an indication of a starvation coming.
Bamboos usually have a life-cycle of around 40 to 80 years. The life-cycle of bamboo blossom varies in different species. Normally, new bamboos grow up from bamboo shoots at the roots. If the soil changed in humidity or nutrition that the plants find that difficult to grow, they will start to blossom. After the blossom, the flowers will give the fruit, which the Chinese called them the "bamboo rice". Then, the bamboo forest will die. Since the bamboo forests usually grow from a single bamboo, the destruction of bamboos happens in a large area.
Bamboos believed to be able to sense the changes of soil. Therefore, people in China believes that the blossom of bamboos is a precursor of coming natural disasters.
Recent studies in India has found that, whenever bamboo blossoms, the rats population will increase in 4 times, due to the "bamboo rice" nurturing the rats and they expanded in population and consumed the crops stored by people. Starvation is thus caused, and the blossom has become an indicator of coming starvation in Northeast India.