Water bamboo is not bamboo shoots

Water bamboo, also known as high melon, Mizushroom bamboo shoots, Mizushroom hand, water bamboo shoots, high bamboo shoots. It is a perennial rooted herbaceous plant of the genus Zizania of the grass family. Divided into double-season water bamboo and single-season water bamboo (or divided into a ripe water bamboo and two ripe water bamboo), double-season water bamboo (two ripe water bamboo) yield is higher, the quality is also good. Ancient people called water bamboo as "Zizania". Before the Tang Dynasty, wild rice was cultivated as a food crop, and its seeds were called Mizutaki rice or carving Hu, which is one of the six grains (sticky rice, millet, grain, sorghum, wheat, and Mizutaki). Later, it was discovered that some Mizutaki were infected with black powder fungus and did not twig, and the plant was free of disease, and the stem continued to expand, gradually forming a spindle-shaped fleshy stem, which is now edible wild rice. In this way, the black powder fungus is used to prevent wild rice from flowering and fruiting, and the deformed plants with the disease are propagated as a vegetable. It can be used as medicine. The only countries in the world where wild rice is cultivated as a vegetable are China and Vietnam. Water bamboo is known as one of the three good (three good that is, water bamboo, spring buds, wild duck eggs) in Shandong Xintai Bai Zhuangzi, passed down from ancient times to the present day. It grows in the Yangtze River lakeside area and is suitable for freshwater growth.