Culm_(botany)

Culm (botany)

Culm (botany)

Above-ground stem of a grass or sedge

This article is about the plant part. For other uses, see Culm.

A culm is the aerial (above-ground) stem of a grass or sedge. It is derived from Latin culmus, meaning "stalk." It originally referred to the stem of any type of plant.[1]

Culms of sugarcane
Use for building roofs in Ethiopia

In horticulture or agriculture, it is especially used to describe the stalk or woody stems of bamboo, cane or grain grasses.

Malting

Main article: Malting

In the production of malted grains, the culms refer to the rootlets of the germinated grains. The culms are normally removed in a process known as "deculming" after kilning when producing barley malt, but form an important part of the product when making sorghum or millet malt. These culms are very nutritious and are sold off as animal feed.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    MacGillavray, William A Manual of Botany London 1840. p. 36.
  2. [2]
    "Malt culms, malt sprouts, malt coombs". Animal Feed Resources Information System. Archived from the original on December 29, 2012. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
Stub icon

This plant morphology article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Culm_(botany), and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.