Plural: Sprigs

A sprig is a small stem or shoot bearing leave or flowers normally as part of a herb shoot.

This term is normally used in cooking to refer to small sections taken from herbs normally 2 – 4 inches, such as mint, rosemary or parsley, to use in a recipe or dish.

Cultivation of plants

When cultivating plants from other plants, you would take a cutting or sprig from the mother plant and plant it in river sand with root generation solution to create a new plant from scratch.

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Author: Ben McInerney is a certified arborist with over 15 years of experience in urban tree management, including tree removal, trimming and arborist reports.

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