Malaysia the `centre' of the rattan world

New Straits Times | July 11, 2000| | Copyright

Helmut Steiner
New Straits Times
07-11-2000
Malaysia the `centre' of the rattan world
Byline: Helmut Steiner
Edition: Life and Times; 2*
Section: Earth Matters

MOST Europeans, and probably many Malaysian urbanites, know rattan as furniture. They would mostly think of it as some sort of bamboo. It isn't, and anyone who has ever trekked in the jungle knows better.

A rattan is a spiny climbing palm. A bamboo is a grass, belonging to the family of grasses, Gramineae, together with plants like rice, corn, wheat and sugar cane. The most obvious difference to the layman is, a bamboo is hollow inside, ...

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