Carbonized bamboo has been steamed, caramelizing the sugar within the bamboo to darken its color without staining.

Hand scraped stained bamboo gives bamboo a contoured, hand scraped finish.

Natural bamboo is just that, bamboo in its natural, not-carbonized, not-stained state.

Strand bamboo is made up of shredded bamboo fibers which are compressed under extreme heat and pressure, yielding bamboo flooring that is harder and more dense than traditional bamboo flooring.