Seed - Specimen details
Catalogue Number: 31856 | |||||
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No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Avena | Entry Book Number | ||
Artefact Name | Seed | Vernacular Name | |||
Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
Parts Held | Seed | Geography Description | |||
Uses | SeedUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
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Notes: | Label source: Grain about the size of common oats, 3 or 4 in each spikelet, the lower, and sometimes 2 of which are bearded. Gerard, who wrote in agric. in 1597, says that at that period unhulled or naked oats, were cultivated in Norfolk and Suffolk. Th, ey are liable to shake when nearly ripe. Prolific and grow well in inferior soils, especially on such as contain a portion of peat. |