Bamboo for cabinets are fashioned from canes of bamboo plants, which are actually grasses, and not wood. They come from a source which renews itself in a remarkably short time. Bamboo not only survives cutting; it thrives on it with new growth which is thicker and stronger than before. Bamboo is indigenous to several areas of the world, and each species of bamboo will create bamboo cabinets of unique appearance. Bamboo cabinets are all strikingly attractive and remarkably durable, with a hardness rating fifty percent greater than most hardwoods and equal in strength to red oak. Bamboo cabinets will be exceptionally strong because each of the strands in a bamboo cane is absolutely straight, and because bamboo has no branches, it also has no knots. The “knuckles” which the canes do contain are dense enough that they do nothing to weaken the structure of the bamboo cabinets. And bamboo’s stability means that it is much less likely to warp in hot or cold conditions than hardwood.