Actually, the bamboo flowering cycle is a fascinating ecological trigger, not a direct cause of famine. It’s a gregarious monocarpic phenomenon where species like *Melocanna baccifera* flower, seed, and die synchronously after long intervals. The rodent population boom from eating the seeds then devastates crops—that’s the real famine link. I’ve been mapping this in Delhi’s herbarium, and our data shows earlier assumptions oversimplify the chain. What my fieldwork in the Aravalli patches taught me is that we often blame the plant, but it’s our own disrupted ecosystems that amplify the crisis.
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