Seed - Specimen details

Seed - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 31856

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Plant Name 200.00 POACEAE Avena Entry Book Number
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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.

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