How fast can bamboo grow?
3.79 cm/hAbout 0.124 ft/h · Creep
Some bamboo can grow about 91 cm in a day, roughly 4 cm an hour.
A red kangaroo at full speed (56 km/h) is about 1,500,000 times faster.
🎋3.79 cm/h
📏a furlong per fortnight
By speed: growing bamboo is about 16× slower than a furlong per fortnight.
Things about as fast
- How fast is a furlong per fortnight?59.9 cm/h
- How fast does electricity flow in a wire?72 cm/h
- How fast does blood move in your capillaries?1.08 m/h
- How fast does a dwarf seahorse swim?1.5 m/h
- How fast does the fastest glacier move?1.67 m/h
- How fast does a garden snail move?3.6 m/h
- How fast does the tip of Big Ben's minute hand move?26.4 m/h
- How fast does ketchup pour?45 m/h
Many real things vary, so we use a typical or official figure. Spotted a mistake? Email [email protected].