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Certain types of flowering bamboo are unusual in that the plants only flower at intervals of several years, and after flowering, the plant dies. Typically, all specimens of a species flower and then die the same year, then new plants grow from their seeds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_blossom
I don’t think I we understand the triggers but that would be the key to the short life span.