This article is retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief in consultation with the authors and the Publisher due to unattributed similarities in Figure 1 with the paper by Canavan S, et al. (2015) "Understanding the risks of an emerging global market for cultivating bamboo: considerations for a more responsible dissemination of alien bamboos". The Editor-in-Chief, the authors and the Publisher apologize to the readers for any inconvenience caused by this retraction. The online version of this article contains the full text of the retracted article as electronic supplementary material.