He walked to a clump of bamboo, touching the smooth and cold bamboo stalk with his hand, carefully observing its nodes and sheaths.
"Judging by the shape of the nodes, the height, and the white powder on the stalk, this is likely the native bamboo species of Yunnan - sweet dragon bamboo, or a large clumping bamboo closely related to it."
"The material of this bamboo is tough, with thick walls, making it top-quality material for making various containers and tools."
"Fortunately, this is a common economic bamboo species, not a protected plant, so we can use it reasonably without worry."
Lin Yu'an's eyes quickly searched the ground and soon found what he most desired to see.
At the base of several old bamboo clumps, a few shoots covered by thick bamboo leaves, with pointed tops forming a pagoda shape, wrapped in brown, fuzzy husks, were stubbornly breaking through the soil.
