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17     bamboo teenagers
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A few years later the dense stand of bamboo seedlings is now an equally dense stand, but made up of many fewer genetically different individuals (and a few of the individuals are quite large and expanding through production of many stems). This particular Costa Rican stand of teenage bamboo is 2-3 years old and growing.
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