Water bamboo, also known as water bamboo, water bamboo shoots, Zizania hand, carved Hu, belongs to the grass family, is a perennial aquatic herb. The seeds of wild rice are called mizuna rice, one of the six ancient grains. The edible part of wild rice is the fat fleshy stem at the base. Zizania is an aquatic vegetable unique to China, and is known as one of the three most famous dishes of the south of the Yangtze River, along with Brasenia schreberi and perch. Due to its tender texture and sweet flavor, it is considered to be the best of vegetables. Information: Name: water bamboo shoots

Alias: water bamboo shoots, water bamboo shoots, foot white bamboo shoots, Zizania, Zizania, the southern region is called high bamboo shoots. In the Flora of China, it is called Zizania aquatica

Scientific name: Zizania aquatica

Distribution: Native to mainland China, widely cultivated in the tropics and subtropics of Asia

Classification: Gramineae

Species: There are white-shelled, green-shelled, and red-shelled

Type: An aquatic plant, with an alternate, linear-sword-shaped, short-constricted, and short-constricted leaf blade. Leaves are alternate, linear-saber shaped, and the shortened stem is covered by the leaf sheath at the base of the stem. After the buds on the stem develop, due to the parasitism of Mizuno Kuroshio fungus, they will produce a fat fungus, which is the water bamboo shoots that we consume.

Use: Edible vegetable with good flavor

Flowering period: May to October, with less production in July

Management: Prefer to grow in shallow water, high temperature and humidity, with a temperature of about 15-20 degrees in the early stage of reproduction, and about 20-30 degrees in the developing stage of the shoots.

Fertilizer: Do not crop continuously, it is best to rotate with vegetables and rice. Cultivation of slightly acidic clay loam soil rich in organic matter is preferred, good drainage and sunshine.

Propagation: Propagation by dividing plants

Description: Wild rice is a disease product of a plant called "Mizushizo", which is a kind of grain that bears a fruit called mizuna. Zizania is the fruit of a grain called Zizania. If the disease resistance of Zizania is weakened and the moss is infected with powdery mildew, the flower stem will not be able to produce flowers and fruits, and the basal part of the flower stem will be expanded due to the stimulation of the disease moss to form fusiform Zizania, and the products of the disease are not only harmless but also beneficial to human beings, and it is one of the indispensable aquatic vegetables, and the water bamboo is classified into one maturity Zizania and two maturity Zizania, and the two maturity Zizania is matured twice a year (in the spring and in the fall).