Barley
Barley is a member of the grass family of plants. Its seeds are a cereal grain. It is a staple food of humans and other animals, and it is one of mankind's oldest crops. It can be made into flour or beer.
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Genus: | Hordeum |
Species: | H. vulgare
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Hordeum vulgare | |
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Its Latin name is Hordeum vulgare. Barley is an annual plant.
Production
Rank | Country | quantity (in t) |
rank | Country | quantity (in t) |
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1 | Russia | 15.663.110 | 9 | United Kingdom | 5.149.000 |
2 | File:Flag of Canada.svg Canada | 11.822.100 | 10 | United States | 4.611.940 |
3 | File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain | 11.684.000 | 11 | Poland | 4.065.800 |
4 | 22x20px Germany | 11.034.200 | 12 | File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China | 3.851.000 |
5 | File:Flag of France.svg France | 9.472.000 | 13 | 22x20px Denmark | 3.104.200 |
6 | Turkey | 7.423.000 | 14 | Iran | 3.000.000 |
7 | 22x20px Ukraine | 6.000.000 | 15 | Kazakhstan | 2.600.000 |
8 | Australia | 5.920.000 | World | 136.207.179 | |
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) [3] |
Barley Media
The Barley Barn at Cressing, Essex, built around 1220; its name means "barley-store".
Barley-based animal feed pellets
6-row barley has three fertile spikelets per cluster
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Two-row and six-row barley ears. The six-row is bere from Orkney.
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Young winter barley in early November,Scotland, 2009
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Spraying barley for rust fungus,New Zealand, 1979
References
- ↑ Hordeum vulgare (TSN {{{ID}}}). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ↑ The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, archived from the original on 8 April 2020, retrieved 2 February 2016
- ↑ "Statistic by the FAO in 2007". FAO. Archived from the original on 19 June 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2009.
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