1. Classification of bamboo: ornamental bamboo
Luohan bamboo: clumping type, culm is not high, the head is large, the upper body is small, the head of a few sections of the "Luohan" like the belly raised, so it is named. Can be used as handicraft materials.
Chinese Bamboo: tufted, some tall, some short, the culm surface is yellowish, with green thick and thin lines, shaped like "qin silk" and so named.
Phoenix Bamboo: tufted, with thin, dwarf culms and very small branches, named after the phoenix tail.
Square Bamboo: Mixed type, the culms are approximately square in shape. The surface is yellowish, and there is a circle of small thorns on the node ring, so it is also called "prickly bamboo". Can be used for handicraft processing materials. This bamboo is a rare bamboo. Fujian Tuo Rong County, Zhayang Township, Fengli Village, there is a precious "square bamboo".
Palm Bamboo: Mixed type, its stem like bamboo is not bamboo, black with skin, heart solid, flesh with white bristle pattern.
Doujia Bamboo: Mixed type, culms are thin, straight and hard, with wide leaves and strong reproduction; in ancient times, the culms were used to make arrow culms. People in Qing Shen often use the leaves in bamboo hats to protect themselves from rain or sunlight, hence the name "Bamboo Bamboo Hat".
Jiulong Bamboo: The world's largest known species of giant clumping bamboo, produced in the Yunnan region of China, is used by locals to make buckets or large utensils. Some professionals say it is Golden Thunder Bamboo.
2. Classification of bamboo: modern bamboo species
Mono bamboo: folk commonly known as "bitter ci", is the genus cizhu, the longest tube (more than a meter long) of high-quality cizhu. Bamboo is delicate, fiber toughness, can start into thin as a cicada wing, as fine as hair of the gabion silk, woven into like silk, like silk fine grade bamboo crafts. This kind of growth in the fertile soil of the Yinshan, is the best material for bamboo weaving. In addition to Qing Shen, Meishan, Qionglai area also has some of this "bitter ci" bamboo.
Four Seasons Bamboo: This is a high-quality bamboo species introduced to Qing Shen in recent years. It is a clumping type, and is named for its four seasons of bamboo shoots. Cizhu is a kind of bamboo genus, the biggest feature is the culm is thick and straight, a dozens of pounds of weight, delicate fiber, reproduction and growth, is a good material for papermaking, the economic value of the big. Qing Shen Xilong, Guanjin, Guihua, Baiguo, Luowan and other towns, there are hundreds of thousands of acres of this bamboo base. This kind of bamboo is native to Daping Township, Yuanling County, Hunan Province.
The cizhu bamboo (Latin name: Bambusa emeiensis) is the clumping type. It is a typical representative of the bamboo: tall, long tube and thick oniony leaves. Cizhu is the most important bamboo species in Qing Shen, widely distributed in the southwest provinces of China. The type specimen was taken from Mount Emei, Sichuan. It is one of the most commonly grown bamboo species in the production area and is now mostly found on the flat land or low hills in front of and behind the cultivated houses of farmers, and the wild ones seem to have been extinct.
Wide range of uses, culm fiber toughness, section sparse tube long, is the bamboo crafts of superior materials, can also split gabion knitted bamboo, used as a stranded mouth is particularly good, can also be used for simple building bamboo wall, and the use of its bamboo tendons and mixing lime to paint the walls; fallen leaves and sheaths can be used for sewing cloth-soled shoes filler; scientific processing can be used as a raw material for the production of layers of bamboo. The bamboo shoots have a bitter taste, but after boiling, there are still for vegetable eaters.
Hard head spring: tufted type, culms high and straight, hard, thick, empty small, so much for building materials, rural areas are used for load-bearing, picking, lifting things. The amount of planting is small.
Spotted bamboo: also known as Xiangfei bamboo, scattered type, culm straight, straight, straight, large diameter, hard, brown spots on the bamboo surface, legend has it that the two daughters of Yao Emperor's tears sprinkled in the tears on the above, so the name "spotted bamboo".
This bamboo is mostly used for building materials, can also be started into gabions for weaving. In ancient times, the fiber rope for pulling a boat was mostly made of this bamboo gabion. It is characterized by the water is not easy to erode it, lightweight, strong tensile strength. The amount of Qing Shen planted is not large. It is mainly produced in Hunan Xiangshui Basin.
Nanzhu: Also known as Maozhu, it is a representative of the scattered type of bamboo. The culms are tall, straight and hard. With a diameter of about 20 centimeters, it is a good material for construction; its head is a good material for carving handicrafts; and its bamboo shoots are the best dish, called "Jade Nan Piece". Qing Shen is planted in Zhongyan Temple, Deyun Temple and other places. It is produced in Changning, Sichuan Province, Chishui, Guizhou Province, Jiangxi Province, Zhejiang Province and Hunan Province.
Nanzhu: A species of nanzhu, named for the hard "thorns" on the culms and branches. Bunch type, culm straight, erect and thick (diameter of more than 10 centimeters), meat thick, empty small, shoots culm sheaths hairless, less leaves. Mostly used for building materials. Qing Shen bamboo art city, day temple and other places have a small amount of planting.
Water bamboo: scattered type, culm slender, hard, shaped like a steel pipe, sparse leaves, bamboo toughness.
Mostly used for bamboo furniture production materials, when large areas of growth, can be used as paper materials. Qing Shen Luowan had a piece of water bamboo, known as the "bamboo sea".
Ink bamboo: scattered type, is a rare species of bamboo. Culms and branches are black and so named; shoot tip shell is reddish-brown, after a year into the timber. It is the best material for making flute and pipe instruments. It is rare in individual places in Qing Shen.
White Powder Bamboo: clumping type, genus Cizhu, culm nodes long, shaped like "Bitter Ci", the surface of the culm has a thin layer of white powder and the name.
3. Bamboo propagation types
Bamboo is divided into three categories: clumping type, scattered type and mixed type.
The clumping type: the buds at the base of the mother bamboo propagate the new bamboo. Folk say "bamboo pocket shoots". Such as cizhu, hard head spring, hemp bamboo, single bamboo and so on.
Scattered type: it is by the whip root (commonly known as whip) on the bud propagation of new bamboo. Such as moso bamboo, zebra bamboo, water bamboo, purple bamboo and so on.
Mixed type: it is not only by the mother bamboo base of the bud reproduction, but also to the bamboo whip root bud reproduction. Such as bitter bamboo, brown bamboo, arrow bamboo, square bamboo and so on.
Scattered types of bamboos are purple bamboo, square bamboo, moso bamboo, light bamboo, etc.; clumping type of bamboo, phoenix bamboo, green bamboo, etc., and mixed type of bamboo, tea pole bamboo, bitter pole bamboo.
Expanded Information:
Bamboo, also known as bamboo. There are many varieties, such as arrow bamboo. Perennial gramineae bamboo subfamily plants, stems are woody, is a branch of the gramineae, scientific name Bambusoideae (Bambusaceae or Bamboo), in the tropical and subtropical regions, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Islands on the distribution of the most centralized, a lot of species, some of the low like grass, and some as tall as a large tree, rapid growth.
Often grown in patches through underground creeping rhizomes, they can also reproduce by flowering and setting seeds, which are known as bamboo rice. Some species of bamboo shoots are edible. Bamboo branches upright, slender, verdant in all seasons, snow and frost, doubly loved by the Chinese, and plum, orchids, chrysanthemums and known as the Four Gentlemen, and plum, pine and known as the age of cold three friends, ancient and modern literati, love bamboo and bamboo many.
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