Nope. It is Antibacterial. Fastest growing plant in world. Single bamboo can achieve 200 kg weight in 4th year. There are 1500 applications of bamboo. You can make 1 kg CNG from 6kg of Bamboo. Cloth made from bamboo is 2 times softer than cotton amd 3 degrees cooler than cotton. Bamboo make our life carbon negative... Planting a acre of bamboo can make you life carbon neutral... As bamboo produces approx 60 to 80 tons of biomass which is locked up in bamboo and in soil. We supply best quality plants of bamboo for plantation in India. We are promoting bamboo plantation on large scale in order to fight climate change and capture CO2.