Is bamboo a tree or grass?

Bamboo is perennial gramineae bamboo subfamily plants, stems for wood, a lot of species, some low grass, some tall as trees, rapid growth, distributed in tropical, subtropical regions, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean and Pacific islands most concentrated distribution, let's take a look at bamboo is a tree or grass bar!

Is bamboo a tree or grass?

Bamboo is grass. Bamboo is an herb, not a tree. The fundamental difference between woody plants and herbs is whether they have annual rings. Every year, the stem of a tree will add a circle of concentric rings, so when you cut down a tree, you will see a circle of rings, and the longer the tree grows, the more rings. And sawn bamboo, inside is empty, there is no ring around. So bamboo is an herb, not a tree at all.

Will bamboo bloom?

Bamboo blossoms. Bamboo does not blossom and bear fruit every year like ordinary flowering plants, so some people mistakenly think that bamboo does not bloom. In fact, bamboo is a flowering plant, and bamboo will bloom 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 will generally appear when flowering. There are white filaments and small particles the size of rice grains in the flower ears. Folk called bamboo rice. The ecological impact of bamboo flowering is enormous, such as the death of giant pandas due to lack of food.

Common types of bamboo

1. Arrow bamboo: Arrow bamboo is also called Huazhu, Arrow bamboo seed, etc. It is widely distributed from Foping on the southern slope of Qinling Mountains to Nanping, Pingwu, Beichuan and Baoxing on the northern boundary of Sichuan Basin and finally to Leibo in southern Sichuan Basin. It is distributed in an arc shape in the western edge of Sichuan Basin. The coniferous forest edge is 2000~2800 meters above sea level. It is the main food source for giant pandas. There are quite a number of species whose rods are medium-sized and are precious natural resources yet to be developed and utilized.

2. Cizhu: Cizhu is also called Cizhu, sweet Ci, wine rice Ci, fishing Ci, cluster bamboo, hanging bamboo, mother-child bamboo, etc. The trunk is 5~10 meters high, the top is slender, curved, bent and drooping like fishing thread, 3~6 cm thick, distributed in Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places. It can be used to treat tuberculosis and vomit blood and make bamboo handicrafts. It is also used to make bamboo handicrafts.

3. Bamboo: Bamboo is also known as Xiangfei Bamboo. It is a variant of Guizhu, a plant belonging to Phyllostachys in Gramineae. It is produced in Hunan, Henan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places. Bamboo stems are covered with brown moire purple spots. The culms are 7 - 13 m high and the stems 3 - 10 cm. The culm has purple-brown patches and spots, and the branches also have purple-brown spots. It differs from the original variety in that the culm has purple-brown patches and spots, and the branches also have purple-brown spots. For the famous ornamental bamboo, culms used for handicrafts and wood.

4. Bamboo: Phyllostachys pubescens is also called Phyllostachys pubescens, Phyllostachys heterophylla, Phyllostachys chinensis, Phyllostachys catus, Phyllostachys chinensis, Phyllostachys pubescens, Phyllostachys chinensis, Phyllostachys pubescens, Phylanceolata pubescens pubescens, Phylanceolata pubescens pubescens, Phylanceolata No leaf ear, spikelet only 1 floret, filament length 4 cm, stigma feather shape. Caryopsis long elliptic, apex with persistent style base. April shoot period, May to August flowering.

5. Bamboo: Bamboo is also called solid bamboo, wood bamboo, Li Zi bamboo, etc. The culm can be about 6 meters high and 3 cm thick. The young culm is white powder and sparsely pubescent. The internodes are 30 cm long and the wall thickness is 3~5 mm. The culm ring is flatter in the thicker culm and the same height as the sheath ring. In the thinner culm, it is obviously raised and higher than the sheath ring, so it has good ornamental value. Bamboo toughness is good, cultivated bamboo thick straight, flat section, suitable for the preparation of various living and production appliances. The famous Yiyang water bamboo mat in Hunan Province is made of this species. The bamboo shoots are for eating.