This wild fruit from India can only be eaten if it sprouts once every 50 years.

When it comes to bamboo, it is estimated that no one will feel strange. There are a lot of bamboo planted in front and behind houses in the countryside. Bamboo has always been accompanied by our student days, and the praise of bamboo by the ancients can always be seen in textbooks. Most of the bamboo seen in daily life rarely blossoms, and even less can see its fruit. But there is a kind of bamboo from abroad, it can bear fruit, and the fruit can be eaten, but it is very rare, many people have never heard of it.

This kind of bamboo is native to northeastern India and is called pear bamboo. The bamboo we usually see is leafy, and we have never seen it blossom, let alone bear fruit, because bamboo blossoms only once in its life, and the leaves begin to wither immediately after it blossoms, which means that the life of bamboo is coming to an end. However, the appearance of this pear bamboo is no different from that of ordinary bamboo, green, but pear bamboo is a kind of bamboo that can bear fruit, not only can it bear fruit, but the fruit of pear bamboo tastes good when roasted.

And this pear bamboo will not die after fruiting, its fruit is a kind of berry, the purpose of the result is to reproduce. When the fruit falls on the ground, it will take root and sprout and grow into small bamboos. This method of reproduction is very different from ordinary bamboo, because ordinary bamboo propagates through bamboo shoots from underground roots, while pear bamboo propagates through fruit, just like fruit trees. But the fruit of pear bamboo is not common. It takes 50 years for pear bamboo introduced in China to bear fruit. If you want to eat its fruit, you must be lucky to eat it.

Pear bamboo has a very high requirement for the living environment, and the general soil and climate can not meet the nutrients needed for the growth of pear bamboo. Pear bamboo was originally grown in tropical countries, but now it has been introduced into a few areas in the south of China. In fact, in the earliest days, farmers did not know that the fruit of pear bamboo was edible, and every time it was always allowed to grow and fall off naturally, and these naturally fallen fruits became the food of rodents. It was only later that they knew that pear bamboo was not only edible, but also delicious.

Unfortunately, this kind of bamboo is only distributed in a small area in China. Affected by climate and planting factors, it has not been widely planted, so it is rare to see it.