This is largely because bamboo can take up to 60 - 120 years to flower, making seed collection unreliable. (treehugger.com)
More than 70,000 new crops were added to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which brings the total number of crop varieties in the world's largest seed collection — an international effort to guard against the worldwide loss of plant diversity — to more than a million. (scientificamerican.com)
Today they're giving away a fall garden seed collection!!! (withfoodandlove.com)