The paper defined the aerial bamboo for the first time,and compared and studied the leaf characters of aerial and no-aerial Bambusa vulgaris ' Wamin'.The experiment results indicated that,compared to the leaves of non-aerial ones,the content of soluble protein,soluble sugar and MDA in leaves of aerial B.Vulgaris decreased by10.5%and 35.3%and 31.9%respectively,while the content of free proline increased by 19.3%and the activities of superoxide dismutase(SOD),peroxidase(POD) and catalase(CAT) in leaves rose b...