Bamboo Anatomy Explained: Culms, Nodes, Sheaths, and Rhizomes

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A culm is the above-ground, woody stem of a bamboo plant—essentially the pole or cane you see growing out of the ground. If you’ve ever held a piece of bamboo and wondered what you were actually looking at, or spent an hour in a nursery catalog trying to decode why one supplier lists “1.5-inch culm … Read more