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Triticum turgidum (rivet wheat)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Triticum dicoccum var. dicoccum
Triticum durum var. durum
Triticum turgidum carthlicum (Persian wheat) (Attributes)
Triticum turgidum dicoccoides
Triticum turgidum dicoccum
Triticum turgidum durum (durum wheat) (Attributes)
Triticum turgidum georgicum (emmer) (Attributes)
Triticum turgidum paleocolchicum
Triticum turgidum polonicum (Polish wheat) (Attributes)
Triticum turgidum turanicum (oriental wheat) (Attributes)
Triticum turgidum turgidum

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Pollinators [2]  Wind
Structure [3]  Grass
Usage [2]  The straw has many uses, as a biomass for fuel etc, for thatching, as a mulch in the garden etc; A fibre obtained from the stems is used for making paper; The stems are harvested in late summer after the seed has been harvested, they are cut into usable pieces and soaked in clear water for 24 hours. They are then cooked for 2 hours in lye or soda ash and then beaten in a ball mill for 1
Height [2]  4.92 feet (1.5 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Triticum turgidum

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve II 762028 Manitoba, Canada

Predators

Delia coarctata[4]
Mayetiola destructor (hessian fly)[4]
Phytomyza nigra[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Blumeria graminis[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0