fast growing
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№ 027TreesBamboo: The Grass That Builds Buildings
The fastest-growing plant on earth, the difference between running and clumping species, and why it flowers once a century and then dies.
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№ 158TreesFalcataria: One of the Fastest-Growing Trees on Earth
A nitrogen-fixing tropical legume that can grow seven metres in a year — a prized fast plantation timber and shade tree that has also become a towering, brittle invader of Pacific islands.
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№ 188TreesGmelina: The Fast Plantation Tree of the Tropics
A quick-growing tropical timber in the teak family, planted across the world for pulp, matchwood, and light construction — a workhorse of the fast-wood plantation, with edible flowers and a place in Ayurveda.
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№ 343TreesPaulownia: The Fastest Growing Hardwood on Earth
Paulownia grows faster than any hardwood on earth. That power makes it valuable on degraded land and dangerous in the wrong place.
Nov 2025Read →