Abstract: This article describes the anatomical features of the embryos of 13 species of bamboo fruits, discusses the significance of these features in systematical classification as well as the status of each species in the classification system. As experiments proved, the embryonic types of the bamboo fruits are varied and complicated, which evinces the limitation of the previous definition of theembeyo types of the Bambusoideae as F+PP type.

Key words: Bamboo fruit