Is bamboo tree or grass? and why?

Bamboo looks like tree,but it's grass.


What is the difference between tree and grass?


Why bamboo is called grass instead of tree?

Is bamboo tree or grass? and why?
Although bamboo is a grass, many of the larger bamboos are very tree-like in appearance and they are often called "bamboo trees". The reason bamboos are so different from trees is they lack a vascular cambium layer and meristem cells at the top of the culm. The vascular cambium is the perpetually growing layer of a tree's trunk beneath the bark that makes it increase in diameter each year. The meristems make the tree grow taller.


A single culm (stem) of bamboo from an established rhizome (root) system reaches full height in one growing season, but then persists for several years, gradually increasing the number of side branches and branchlets, but neither growing broader or taller.
Reply:Bamboo is a member of grass family. So it is a grass. But it is rather unusual grass that is tree like in structure as it is woody.
Reply:Its grass, cause it does not branch like tree nor does it have a hidden penis like many trees.
Reply:It is a grass. It is a woody monocot.





This means it is a mono-cotyledon. This refers to how the sprout comes out of the seed. Grasses, like wheat, corn, Kentucky Bluegrass and all monocots (mono=one) have one leaf sprout coming out of the seed when it germinates.





True trees are Di-cots (dicotyledons). When the seed germinates it raises its head and turns into two little leaves on the stem. Thus the term DI (two) cotyledons.





The cotyledon is a little portion containing the energy stores of the seed, which the new sprout uses until it can make its own.

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