100 Tall and Straight Bamboo Bamboo, also known as bamboo, originating from china. Variety, perennial Gramineae Bambusoideae plants, stem wood, is a branch of Gramineae, generic Bambusoideae (Bambusaceae or bamboo) Usually by underground creeping rhizomes into growth, can blossom seed breeding, seed is called bamboo rice. Some kinds of bamboo shoots can be eaten.