Meet the 50-year-old flower that causes famine in this region of the world every time it blooms
Bamboo blooms simultaneously in a number of forests in northeastern India every 48 or 50 … [+] years. This is why this causes a huge increase in the rat population and, ultimately, starvation. getty India’s northeastern state of Mizoram and some of its neighbors were devastated by a famine in 1911. Forty-eight years later, the … Read more