Culm (botany)
Above-ground stem of a grass or sedge / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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In horticulture or agriculture, it is especially used to describe the stalk or woody stems of bamboo, cane or grain grasses.