u/Asian_Juan

Question up above.

Firstly I'm wondering this as someone who lives in a tropical nations (Philippines) where bamboos are native plants that just grow anywhere.

The species here are mostly the clumping bamboo type that grow in pockets or clusters only but there are some running bamboo varieties that exist but have a hard time being a nuisance.

But as someone who is used to living with a giant bamboo cluster in your yard in rural mountains.. why is bamboo so feared as an uncontrollable monster?

I'm guessing it has something to do that there's no native competition against bamboo, people don't harvest for food, construction material etc. as much unlike here in SEA (southeast asia), and then lastly, large grass lawns being prefect sites for unimpeded bamboo expansion.