Cattail is also known as deep bushes, bushes Lijiu, bushes bamboo shoots, bushes buds, bushes white, bushes child root, bushes child vegetable, for the perennial plants in the family of Tennessee perennial pseudo-stems of bushes. Born in swampy rivers and lakes and shallow water, China's Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Hunan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hebei, Yunnan, Shanxi and other places are distributed to the southern water towns most.

Reed alias: reed, reed, reed

The reed plant is tall with well-developed creeping rhizomes underground. The stalks are erect, 1-3 meters high, often white powdery below the nodes. Leaf sheaths are cylindrical, glabrous or finely hairy. Most reeds long flowers, a few reeds long stick, stick is yellow-brown, stick surface hairy, about a dollar coin thick, more than ten centimeters long, the stick just picked is hard, and then more and more soft, lit reed stick will have smoke, can repel mosquitoes, non-toxic.