- Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 33381 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Triticum | Entry Book Number | ||
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| Iso Country | United Kingdom | TDWG Region | United Kingdom | ||
| Parts Held | Geography Description | Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, Sussex, Hollington, The High Beech | |||
| Uses | Use: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: See previous specimen. Label source: To the editor of country life* Sir, Some four years ago, as a result of excavations in a tomb believed to be 3500 to 5000 years old, in Mohenjo Daro, Sind, on the NW Frontier of India, an ear of wheat, was unearthed. It was sown in the ground and a fine crop resulted. The wheat was hitherto unknown in the country. It is a peculiar type, each head having small branches, up to 9 sprays from it, and judging from the wt of grain produced in the plot grow, n, it was unusually prolific. Some of the seed from this plot has been grown at the High Beech with great success. As the accompanying photographs show, this wheat has grown to a considerable ht, bout 5 ft 7 ins. The practice of placing wheat in tombs f, or the nourishment of the deceased in the spirit world was well known in antiquity, and the ear of wheat discovered 4 years ago may have been buried for 5000 years. G.M. Jefferson. | ||||