Is the latest bamboo a tree or a grass?

Bamboo is a perennial subfamily of Gramineae with woody stems and many species, some as low as grass, some as tall as trees and growing rapidly, distributed in the tropics and subtropics, and most concentrated in East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean and Pacific Islands. let's take a look at whether bamboo is a tree or grass.

Is bamboo a tree or a grass?

Bamboo is grass. Bamboo is a kind of herb, not a tree. The fundamental difference between woody plants and herbaceous plants is whether they have annual rings. Every year, the stem of the tree will add a concentric ring, so when you cut down the tree, you will see a circle of rings, and the longer the tree grows, the more rings there will be. When the bamboo is sawed off, it is empty and there are no rings around it. So bamboo is a herb, not a tree at all.

Will bamboo blossom?

Bamboo blossoms. Bamboo does not blossom and bear fruit every year like ordinary flowering plants, so some people mistakenly think that bamboo does not blossom. In fact, bamboo is a flowering plant, and it has to blossom and bear fruit after a certain period of time. Bamboo will die after flowering because it does not have enough nutrients to continue to grow. White floc usually appears during flowering. There are white filaments and a kind of small particles the size of rice grains in the flower spike, which is called bamboo rice in folk. Bamboo flowering has a great impact on ecology, such as giant pandas will die because of lack of food.

Common species of bamboo

1. Arrow bamboo: arrow bamboo, also known as slippery bamboo, arrow bamboo, etc., widely distributed from Foping on the southern slope of the Qinling Mountains to the northern boundary of the Sichuan Basin, and finally Leibo distributed in an arc in the mountains on the western edge of the Sichuan Basin, and the coniferous forest edge at an altitude of 2000-2800 meters above sea level is the main food source for giant pandas, among which there are quite a number of species whose rods are medium-sized, which are valuable natural resources to be exploited.

2. Cizhu: Cizhu, also known as Cizhu, Tian ci, Jiumici, fishing ci, Cong Bamboo, hanging Bamboo, son Mother Bamboo, etc., the trunk is 5 to 10 meters high, the top is slender and curved, and it is bent and drooping like a fishing line, 3 cm thick. It is distributed in Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places, can be used for the treatment of tuberculosis, hematemesis and the production of bamboo handicrafts, but also used to make bamboo crafts.

3. Phyllostachys pubescens: Phyllostachys pubescens, also known as Phyllostachys pubescens, is a form of Phyllostachys pubescens in the subfamily Bambusoideae of Gramineae, which is produced in Hunan, Henan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang. The bamboo pole is covered with brown moire purple spots. The culm is 7 × 13 m high and the stem is 3 × 10 cm. The culms have purple-brown patches and spots, and the branches also have purple-brown spots, which are different from the original varieties in that the culms have purple-brown patches and spots, and the branches also have purple-brown spots. For the famous ornamental bamboo, culms are used for handicrafts and timber.

4. Phyllostachys pubescens: Phyllostachys pubescens, etc. bamboo: Phyllostachys pubescens, etc. Lanceolate, lower surface pilose along the base of midvein, flower branches spikelike, leafless, spikelets with only one floret, filaments 4 cm long, stigma feathery. Caryopsis long elliptic, apical with persistent style base. It will blossom from May to August during the shooting period in April.

5. Water bamboo: water bamboo, also known as solid bamboo, wood bamboo, Li Zi bamboo, etc., the rod can be about 6 meters high, up to 3 cm thick, the young rod has white powder and sparse pubescence, the length of the Internode is up to 30 cm, and the wall thickness is 3-5 mm. The rod ring is flatter in the thicker pole, the same height as the ring, and obviously raised and higher than the ring in the thinner rod, so it has good ornamental value. The toughness of Phyllostachys pubescens wood is good, and the cultivated bamboo pole is thick and straight, and the section is relatively flat, so it is suitable to compile all kinds of living and production appliances. The famous Yiyang water bamboo mat in Hunan is made of this species for material, with bamboo shoots for edible use.