Secale vavilovii

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Seeds, Cereal

The seeds are cooked and used as a cereal grain — suitable for making bread, cakes, and thickening soups.

Where to Find It

It is a temperate plant.

Armenia, Caucasus, Europe, Turkey, Türkiye,

Countries: Andorra, Albania, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Monaco, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Russia, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, San Marino, Turkey, Ukraine

How to Identify

An annual grass growing to 1.2 m tall with hermaphroditic wind-pollinated flowers. Tolerates light, medium, and heavy well-drained soils across mildly acid to mildly alkaline pH ranges. Requires full sun, prefers moist soil, and can endure drought. Hardy to UK zone 3.

How to Grow

We have very little information on this species but it should succeed as an annual crop in Britain. It might be possible to sow it as an over-wintering annual. Succeeds in most soils but prefers a well-drained light soil in a sunny position.

Propagation: Sow seed in situ in March or October, barely covering it. Germination should occur within 2 weeks.

Medicinal Uses

None known.

Other Uses

None known.

Wikipedia

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Secale vavilovii is a species of grass (family Poaceae), native to Turkey, the Transcaucasus, Iraq, and Iran. An annual, it is a crop wild relative of rye (Secale cereale) and is being studied for its resistance to Fusarium ear blight and Septoria leaf blotch.

Names & Synonyms

S. cereale vavilovii. (Grossheim.)Mayse.

References (3)

Trudy Prikl. Bot. Selekc. 13(2):473, 474, 481. 1924
Plants for a Future database, The Field, Penpol, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, PL22 0NG, UK. http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/
Zeven, A. C. & de West, J. M. J., 1982, Dictionary of cultivated plants and their regions of diversity. Wageningen. p 93