Hop (plant)

Humulus lupulus L.

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Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc.

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Siebold - Zucc.

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Humulus yunnanensis Hu

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The hop (Humulus) is a small genus of flowering plants, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The female flowers, commonly called hops, are used as flavouring and stabilisers during beer brewing.

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Flowering plant - Northern Hemisphere - Flower - Flavour - Stabiliser - Beer - Brewing

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Although frequently referred to as the hop vine, it is technically a bine; unlike vines, which use tendrils, suckers, and other appendages for attaching themselves, bines have stout stems with stiff hairs to aid in climbing. It is a perennial herbaceous plant which sends up new shoots in early spring and dies back to the cold-hardy rhizome in autumn. Hop shoots grow very rapidly and at the peak of growth can grow 20-50 cm per week. Hop bines climb by wrapping clockwise around anything within reach, and individual bines typically grow between 2 to 15 m depending on what is available to grow on. The leaves are opposite, with a 7-12 cm petiole and a cordate-based, palmately lobed blade 12-25 cm long and broad; the edges are coarsely toothed. When the hop bines run out of material to climb, horizontal shoots sprout between the leaves of the main stem to form a network of stems wound round each other.

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Bine - Vine - Perennial - Rhizome - Cm - M - Leaves

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