1. Edible Portion: Seeds, Cereal, Husks - Oil An annual grass with hollow stems. The stems can be 30 cm to 150 cm tall. (Floating varieties can be 5 m long.) The nodesare solid and swollen. The stem is protected by a skin layer which can often be high in silicon. A clump of shoots are producedas...
  2. Edible Portion: Seeds, Cereal A grass. There are several named cultivated varieties. It grows each year from seeds. It grows 45-90 cm tall. The leaves are20 cm long by 3-7 mm wide. The flower panicle is 25 cm long. The spikelets are 1-3 cm long. The grain is 6 mm long.
  3. Edible Portion: Seeds, Stem, Cereal, Shoots A bushy bamboo. It grows 2-3 m high. The stems are slender and black. They are 1-2 cm across. The young shoots arecreamy purple. The leaves are 6-15 cm long by 8-12 mm wide. They do not have hairs.
  4. Edible Portion: Seeds, Stem, Cereal, Shoots, Vegetable A bamboo. It forms clumps. It has strong underground stems. It grows 3-10 m tall. The lower internodes are very short. Thestems are tough and erect. They are smooth and olive-green. They are more yellow in the sun. They are 25-40 mm wide. The...
  5. Edible Portion: Shoots, Cereal, Seeds A bamboo. The stems are 5-8 m tall and 204 cm wide. They are green and can have yellow stripes. The internodes are 40-70cm long. Young shoots are slender. The leaf blades are 30 cm long by 5 cm wide. They are pale green underneath. The culmsheaths are 60 cm...
  6. Edible Portion: Seeds, Shoots, Cereal A bamboo. It grows 13-15 m high. The culms are 2-5 cm across. The internodes are 25-40 cm long. It is green but becomesyellow with age. The leaves are 9-30 cm long and 5-11 mm wide. The flowering shoots are in a round brownish head. Theseeds are brown and...
  7. Edible Portion: Shoots, Seeds, Cereal A bamboo. It grows 3-7 m tall. The stems are 1-3 cm across. The internodes are 15-22 cm long. They have brown hairs whenyoung. There are root thorns in a ring on the lower stems.
  8. Edible Portion: Seeds, Leaves, Shoots, Cereal, Manna, Rhizaome, Root
  9. Edible Portion: Seeds, Cereal, Shoots A bamboo. It grows 6 m tall. It grows in clumps and keeps growing from year to year. The stems are 5-9 m long and 2-4 cmwide. The internodes are 15-20 cm long. The culm sheaths are 30-40 cm long. The leaf blades are narrowly sword shaped and15-30 cm long by...
  10. Edible Portion: Fruit, Seeds, Cereal, Shoots An evergreen bamboo. The culms are single and spread 60 cm apart. They come from a long creeping rhizome. They arebright green and 8-15 m long by 4-6 cm wide. The internodes are 30-50 cm long. The walls are thin. They are about 6 mmthick. The culm...