Water bamboo shoots in the countryside called high shoots, high melon, some places call it called Zizania shoots, water bamboo.

Wild rice is also called foot white shoots, water shoots, water bamboo shoots, water bamboo shoots, water bamboo shoots, wild rice, wild rice, is the grass family Zizania genus, perennial rooted herbaceous plants, wild rice edible part of the flower stem base of the expansion of the underground shoots, mostly grown in the Yangtze River lakes, suitable for freshwater growth.

Morphological features:

Wild rice has stout fibrous roots, and the culms are highly erect, 1-2 meters tall, about 1 cm in diameter, with many nodes and adventitious roots at the basal nodes. Leaf sheaths are longer than the internodes, thick, with small transverse veins; ligules membranous, ca. 1.4 cm long, apex pointed; leaf blades flat and broad, 50-90 cm long, 15-30 mm wide.

Panicle, 30-50 cm long, branches mostly clustered, ascending, and fruiting; spikelets 10-15 mm long, compressed on both sides, embedded in the lower part of the inflorescence or in the upper part of the branches, lemmas with 5 scabrid veins, awns 20-30 mm long, lemmas with 3 veins. The caryopsis is cylindrical, ca. 12 mm long, the embryo small, 1/8 as long as the substrate.