The scientific name of the plant is bamboo cane.

Bamboo cane is a tall perennial herbaceous plant of the family Gramineae. The stem is solid and strong, with many nodes, grayish brown, covered with wax powder, and the lower part of the inflorescence has white filamentous pubescence; the leaf sheath is longer than the internodes, the sheath mouth has villous hair, and the leaf tongue is densely covered with fine hairs; the leaves are linear-lanceolate, hairless, The white midrib is thick and has rough jagged edges.

Large-scale panicle, the main axis is covered with white silky pubescence, the sessile spikelet is lanceolate, and the caryopse is oval. The flowering and fruiting period is from November to March of the following year, and most of them do not bloom or bear fruit. The scientific name of northern green sugarcane is bamboo cane, so named because it looks like bamboo.