Water bamboo is an aquatic vegetable,

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Native to China and Southeast Asia, it is a relatively common aquatic vegetable. It is distributed in temperate Asia, Japan, Russia and Europe. The whole grass is excellent fodder for the overwintering of fish. It is also a pioneering plant for fixing dykes and creating land.

Morphological Characteristics

Perennial, with creeping rhizome. Fibrous roots stout. Culms tall and erect, 1-2 m tall, ca. 1 cm in diameter, with numerous nodes, basal nodes bearing adventitious roots.

Leaf sheaths longer than their internodes, plump, with small transverse veins; ligules membranous, ca. 1.4 cm, apically pointed; leaf blades flattened and broad, 50-90 cm long, 15-30 mm wide.

Panicle, 30-50 cm long, branches mostly fascicled, ascending, fruiting spreading; male spikelets 10-15 mm long, compressed on both sides, inserted in lower part of inflorescence or upper part of branches, purplish, lemmas 5-veined, apically acuminate with a small cusp, palea 3-veined, midvein ridged, hairy, stamens 6, anthers 5-10 mm long.

The female spikelet is cylindrical, 18-25 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, inserted in the upper part of the inflorescence and below the branches adnate to the main axis, lemma 5-veined scabrid, awn 20-30 mm long, palea 3-veined. Caryopsis terete, ca. 12 mm, embryo small, 1/8 of fruiting body.