Bamboo shoots are the shoots of perennial evergreen plants of Bambusoideae, which are native to China. Bamboo shoots are the ingredients of Jiangnan cuisine. In the past, there was even a saying that "you can't eat bamboo shoots without bamboo". Although all bamboo shoots are produced, not all bamboo shoots can be called cooking products. As a vegetable bamboo shoot, it must have tender tissue, no bitter taste or other bad taste, or a little bitter taste, and can only be eaten after processing to remove the bitter taste.

Bamboo shoots like warm and humid climate, and can grow on streams and beaches with deep soil layers and slightly acidic or neutral soil, or at the foot of mountains below 500 meters above sea level. Generally, it is required that the annual average temperature is ≥ 17.5℃ and the temperature is extremely low >: -6℃, and the annual precipitation is above1400 mm. Only under the conditions of less frost and short low temperature in winter can winter.

Species and distribution of bamboo shoots

Vegetable bamboo shoots mainly include individual varieties such as Phyllostachys pubescens, Bambusa bambusa, Phyllostachys pubescens and Bitter Bamboo.

Bamboo species are Phyllostachys pubescens and Phyllostachys pubescens, which grow in the Yangtze River basin. Phyllostachys pubescens grows in the Yangtze River basin and the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Phyllostachys pubescens grows in the Yangtze River valley and in Shandong, Henan and Shaanxi. Phyllostachys praecox, Dianthus caryophyllus, Phyllostachys pubescens and Phyllostachys pubescens grown in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces; Phyllostachys pubescens growing in southern provinces.

Dendrocalamus latiflorus is a Dendrocalamus latiflorus growing in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan Province and Yunnan and Guizhou. Dendrocalamus latiflorus grown in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan Province and Zhejiang; Dendrocalamus latiflorus and Dendrocalamus latiflorus grown in Guangdong and Guangxi; Dendrocalamus latiflorus grown in Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan; And Dendrocalamus latiflorus grown in Liangshan, Guangxi, Guizhou and Sichuan.

The species of bamboos are native to Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Taiwan Province provinces, and are native to Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and Guizhou. The variety of bitter bamboo is Phyllostachys pubescens, which grows in the southeast coast.