2 BULLETIN 6 0, HAWAII EXPERIMENT STATION 
GROUP 1. LEAFY AND STEM VEGETABLES 
Bamboo Shoots ( Bamousa ■ spp.). (Fig. I 2 ) 
Chinese name: Choke-sun 3 
Japanese name: Take-noko 
Shape: Young, undeveloped stout or slender cone-shaped shoot, with clasping 
scales ; base, enlarged ; top, pointed. 
Size: Two to five inches in diameter at base; 8 to 16 inches long. 
Color: Exterior, straw yellow to buff near base, and light green with traces 
of purple from middle to tip ; interior, white. 
Figure 1. — Bamboo shoots 
The bamboo shoot is the immature stalk of any of the several 
species of the larger bamboos (7, p. 28; 13, p. 98; U, p. 234). 4 It is 
severed from the clump or mother plant when 8 to 16 inches talL 
2 The name of the vegetable in Japanese (left) and Chinese (right) is given in each 
illustration in the lower left-hand corner. 
3 The Chinese names throughout have been Romanized in the Cantonese dialect. 
4 Reference is made by italic numbers in parentheses to " Literature cited," p. 63. 
