1.   The popularity of the plant means many more vendors selling other items have added lucky bamboo to their businesses.

2.   In Chicago, the Fertile Delta has been stocking lucky bamboo since the start of the year.

3.   Lucky bamboo is also shipped to San Francisco, Seattle, New York and New Jersey.

4.   Lucky bamboo from those shipments is sent all over the country.

5.   Lucky bamboo, or dracaena sanderiana, is not actually part of the bamboo family but merely resembles the fast-growing plant.

6.   Lucky bamboo has long been sold by Asian gardeners and nursery owners in Southern California.

7.   Lucky bamboo resembles bamboo but is not a member of the bamboo family.

8.   Lucky bamboo shipped to the United States arrives packed in water, where mosquitoes can breed.

9.   Shipments of lucky bamboo have brought another Asian import, tiger mosquitoes, to Southern California.