Bamboo is one of the three friends, but also a common plant in life, that bamboo is a grass or a tree we all know? Next go together to understand it!

Bamboo is a grass or a tree

Bamboo is grass. Bamboo is a tall tree-like grass plant, bamboo is a tall, fast-growing grass plant with a woody stem. However, there are some differences between bamboo and ordinary grass, because ordinary grass is generally speaking a one-year plant, the second year will disappear, and then re-sprouting and then grow. But bamboo is not so, bamboo is gradually grow upward every year.

There is also the fact that bamboo is actually woody, it is not as soft as ordinary grass, and of course it is because of these special reasons that lead many people to think that bamboo is a tree.

Difference between Herbaceous and Woody Plants

Herbaceous plants have herbaceous stems with lots of vascular bundles and thin-walled cells, and undeveloped xylem. Also the vascular bundles of herbaceous plants do not have a forming layer and cannot grow thicker gradually.

The stems of woody plants are, from outside to inside, bast, formative layer, xylem, and the formative layer grows and becomes xylem after aging. Some perennial herbaceous plants have stems and leaves that are stiffer than harder and have a xylem layer, but it is in the reverse order of the woody stems, with the xylem layer on the outermost layer and the vascular bundles on the inner layer, and is usually hollow.

One of the most fundamental differences between herbaceous and woody plants is that trees have annual rings, which record their years, but herbaceous plants do not have annual rings, such as bamboo, which is hollow, and which does not have annual rings at all, so bamboo is a grass.