Barley refers not to barley.

Barley is a type of barley, also a cereal crop. In terms of role, barley and barley are the same can be eaten as food, but compared to grow in the interior of the mild barley, growing in the plateau region of barley, because of the years of hard growth environment, and sharpened more of the elements beneficial to the human body.

Barley is generally used to brew beer is the main raw material, and barley is mostly used to brew liquor raw materials. Barley is broken down into dozens of varieties. Barley is one of them, is the grass family barley genus of a cereal crop, because of its internal and external shell separation, the seeds are bare, so also known as naked barley, yuan wheat, rice barley, is the Tibetan people's favorite grain.

Morphological Characteristics of Barley

Three annual culms are erect, smooth, about 100 centimeters tall, 4-6 millimeters in diameter, and with 4-5 nodes. Leaf sheaths smooth, mostly shorter than or basal ones longer than internodes, flanked by two auricles, clasping each other; ligules membranous, 1-2 mm long; leaf blades 9-20 cm long, 8-15 mm wide, slightly scabrous.

Spike yellow-brown or purplish-brown at maturity, 4-8 cm long (except awns), 1.8-2 cm wide; spikelets ca. 1 cm long; glumes linear-lanceolate, shortly hairy, apex acuminate to awned, up to 1 cm long; lemma apexes extended into awns 10-15 cm long, flanked by fine prickly hairs. The caryopsis is easily detached from the captive at maturity.

References to the above: Baidu Encyclopedia-Barley