荸荠古称凫茈(fú cí)。它是莎草科、荸荠属多年生草本,水生菜类蔬菜,以脆嫩多汁的地下球茎供食用。荸荠原产于我国和印度。两千多年以来,我国以产品器官的形态、色泽结合其它生物学特性以及食用功能,运用形声、拟物和寓意等手法,给小小的荸荠命名了三四十种不同的称谓。荸荠的植株由叶状茎、匍匐茎、肉质茎以及须根组成。叶状茎呈管状,直立、中空;叶片退化成膜片状。匍匐茎滋生于地下,它包括分蘖型(营养生长器官)和球茎(贮藏器官)两种。球茎表面光滑、扁圆形,老熟后外观呈深栗色、枣红色或墨紫色。其拉丁学名的种加 Water chestnut ancient name 凫 茈 (fú cí). It is Cyperaceae, water chestnuts is a perennial herb, aquatic vegetables, crisp and succulent underground bulbs for food. Water chestnuts native to China and India. For more than two thousand years, our country has named thirty or forty different appellations to the small water chestnuts in terms of the form of the organs of the products, the color and the combination of other biological characteristics, and the edible functions. Water chestnut plants from the phyllodes, stolons, succulent stems and fibrous roots. Phyllostachys tubular, erect, hollow; leaves degenerated into flake. Stolon bred underground, it includes tiller type (vegetative growth organ) and corms (storage organ) two. Bulb smooth surface, oblate, dark brown appearance after mature, maroon or ink purple. Its Latin name of species plus