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Wheat🌾
Triticum aestivum
コムギ
One of the world's three major cereal crops, an annual grass used as the raw material for bread, noodles, pastries, and many other foods. Introduced to Japan before the Nara period, it is deeply rooted in Japanese food culture through udon, somen, and okonomiyaki. Hokkaido is the main domestic production area.
Identification Points
- ✓Erect culms bearing flattened spikes
- ✓Dense spike with 3–5 florets per spikelet
- ✓Awned and awnless varieties exist
- ✓Leaves are linear with prominent auricles
Habitat
Fields and farmland
Season
Autumn sowing: October–November, harvest the following June
3D Specimen Model
Kyushu University, Shikano Lab (CC0)
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Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Simple
Venation
Parallel
Leaf margin
Entire
Leaf shape
Linear
Growth form
Herb
Petal fusion
No petals
Habitat
Cultivated
Leaf dissection
Undivided
Ovary position
Superior
Phylogenetic Positionイネ科 →
Phylogenetic Position
Angiosperms > Monocots > Commelinids > Poales > Poaceae
Divergence Era
Late Cretaceous to Paleogene (approx. 80–70 million years ago)
Evolution Notes
Wheat is a hexaploid plant that arose through natural hybridization and polyploidization of different wild grass genomes. Domestication began approximately 10,000 years ago in the Middle East.
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