In what season does bamboo bloom?

Bamboo can bloom, but it has no seasonal law, and it only blooms once in a lifetime. Bamboo is a perennial plant, but after flowering, the leaves will turn yellow, sometimes the leaves will fall off and the stems will turn yellow. There are many kinds of bamboo, so the flowering time is different, and sometimes even the same kind of bamboo has different flowering time.

Flowering characteristics of bamboo

First, bamboo is a perennial flowering plant, unlike other flowering plants, which can blossom and bear fruit every year. Therefore, people often mistakenly think that bamboo does not bloom. Bamboo usually leaves many leaves before flowering, or after flowering, the leaves turn yellow, the plants gradually dry up and finally die in pieces.

Secondly, different kinds of bamboos have different flowering seasons and flowering periods, and there are more kinds of bamboos that bloom in spring and summer. The flowering period varies from species to species, for example, Phyllostachys pubescens can bloom from February to September, Phyllostachys affinis can bloom from April to July, and Phyllostachys pubescens can bloom from May to August.

Thirdly, the frequency of bamboo flowering, different bamboo species and different flowering periods are related to the genetic characteristics of bamboo species. Generally, bamboo blooms once every 30-80 years, only once every 100 years, and some bamboos never bloom. For example, Dendrocalamus latiflorus and Bambusa Banna bloom once every 30 years; Japanese bamboo blooms every 32 years; Some kinds of bamboo bloom every 80 years; Zhu Gui 120 blooms once. Some bamboos bloom irregularly.

Fourth, the flowers of bamboo are exquisite and delicate. Each flower has 65,438+0 palea and palea, 3 or 6 stamens and 65,438+0 pistils, forming a spike shape.

People used to think that bamboo flowering was an "ominous sign", which was very mysterious. Now everyone knows that bamboo flowering is a normal natural phenomenon and a process of bamboo fruit reproduction.