Fargesia spathacea
Franchet
Giant panda bamboo
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Shoots, Seeds
Both the young shoots and seeds are edible portions of this plant.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant. It grows in central China between 1,300-2,400 m altitude.
Asia, China,
Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
How to Identify
A bamboo. It grows 2-4 m tall. The culms are 0.5-2 cm across. The internodes are 15-18 cm long. There are 9-14 branches at each node. There are 2 or 3 leaves at the last branch. The leaf blade is 6-10 cm long by 5-13 mm wide.
Names & Synonyms
Jian zhu
Arundinaria spathacea (Franchet) D. McClintockThamnocalamus spathaceus (Franchet) Soderstrom
References (3)
- Flora of China. Vol. 22, p 83 and Flora of China. www.eFloras.org
- Hu, Shiu-ying, 2005, Food Plants of China. The Chinese University Press. p 290
- Wang, J., et al, 2020, An ethnobotanical survey of wild edible plants used by the Yi people of Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 16:10 p 8
