the shoot of mao bamboo

the shoot of mao bamboo

(collection of compendium)

[synonym] bamboo shoots (bamboo shoots by zanning).

[source] seedlings of Phyllostachys pubescens.

[plant morphology] Phyllostachys pubescens, also known as Maotou bamboo (Xin'an annals), Jiangnan bamboo (ru'nan Pu History), Maozhu and Maozhu (Qunfang spectrum), mengzongzhu, Lutou bamboo and Nanzhu.

Arboriform bamboos. The culm is 13-25m high, 10-30cm in diameter, cylindric, with grooves on one side of branches; culm ring is flat, sheath ring is protruding, glabrous; culm sheath is as long as internodes or longer; sheath sheath is thick and leathery, with brown purple spikelets and brown black spots on the back; sheath ear is undeveloped, with epithelia; sheath leaves are long and narrow, with 2 branches on nodes. Branchlets with 2-8 leaves; leaf sheath 17-25 mm long, glabrous or slightly hairy on the upper part, sheath mouth sometimes with only a few gray white hairs on the top, easy to fall; ligule oblong, erect, 1-3 mm long. Leaf blade narrow lanceolate or lanceolate, 4-11 cm long, 5-14 mm wide, abaxial midrib base pubescent, 3-5 pairs of secondary veins, small transverse veins very significant, leaf margin serrate or rough, petiole 2-4 mm long. Branchlets solitary, leafless, about 50 cm long; spikelets cluster with bracts, bracts narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, 16-22 mm long, apex with a straight linear reduced leaf, 7-18 mm long; spikelets with 1 complete flower and 1 degenerate flower, glume 1, 13-16 mm long, lemma 22-24 mm long, upper part with coarse bristles; palea 20-22 mm long, apex bidentate, upper and lower part with coarse bristles There are micro hairs between the two ridges and small spines on the ridge. The shoot period is from late December (winter shoot) to early April (spring shoot). The flowering period is from August to September.

Most of them are cultivated. It is distributed in the Yangtze River Basin and all over the south.

[nature and taste] Compendium: "sweet, cold. "

[functions and indications] 1. Wang Ying's food materia medica: "it can't cure children's pox and rash. It can be used to cook porridge and detoxify. "

② "Food taboo": "expectorant, smooth intestines, through poison, wake up, acne. "

③ "Gangmu Taiyi": "it can benefit nine orifices, dredge blood vessels, remove phlegm and saliva, and eliminate food and distension. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction or cooking.

[taboo] food taboo: "in children with spleen deficiency, it is difficult to eat more. "