On the badlands, however, hardly any plants survive, and only Bambusa stenostachya is able to grow in quantity. Every year in February and March, because of the lack of rain and the high soil salinity, the bamboo leaves all turn to yellow, orange and finally red, in a spectacular show of colors seen nowhere else in Taiwan.
而幾乎寸草不生的惡地形，唯有刺竹可以大量成群的生長，每年到了二、三月，由於缺少雨水，加上地質含鹽分高的緣故，刺竹的竹葉紛紛變黃、轉橙、進而成紅，形成一片彩竹紅葉景觀、獨步全台。