Highland barley
Highland barley, Tibetan barley or Himalayan barley is the principal cereal cultivated on the Tibetan Plateau, used mainly to make tsampa and liquor.
Today, it is used to make beer, flour, bread, cakes or noodles.
Three Chinese words are associated with two varieties of barley:
- 青稞 and 藏青稞: Hordeum aegiceras Nees ex Royle
- 青稞: Hordeum distichon L.