culming

Updated: May 19, 2025

Nature has girded on her robe of green, and by the touch of her magical wand, has toned down its rough features to an almost delicate softness. The young maize planted in a soil that has lain fallow, perhaps for a thousand years is rapidly culming upward; and the rich sheen of the long lance-like leaves, as they bend gracefully over, hides from view the sombre hues of the earth.

Mayne Reid - The Wild Huntress: Love in the Wilderness