茭白 | jiāo bái | Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot |
菰 | gū | Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白筍|茭白笋[jiao1bai2sun3], which is swollen by a smut fungus / variant of 菇[gu1] |
茭白笋 | jiāo bái sǔn | edible stem of Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo |
美人腿 | měi rén tuǐ | (Tw) (coll.) edible stem of Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo |