Ears of Barley a cultivated crop primarily or the Maltings for the Whiskey Distilling Industry. SCO 9248
The Old English word for 'barley' was bære, which traces back to Proto-Indo-European and is cognate to the Latin word farina "flour". The direct ancestor of modern English "barley" in Old English was the derived adjective bærlic, meaning "of barley". The first citation of the form bærlic in the Oxford English Dictionary dates to around 966 AD, in the compound word bærlic-croft. The underived word bære survives in the north of Scotland as bere, and refers to a specific strain of six-row barley grown there. The word barn, which originally meant "barley-house", is also rooted in these words. Barley is a member of the grass family. It is a self-pollinating, diploid species with 14 chromosomes. The wild ancestor of domesticated barley, Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum, is abundant in grasslands and woodlands throughout the Fertile Crescent area of Western Asia and northeast Africa, and is abundant in disturbed habitats, roadsides and orchards. Outside this region, the wild barley is less common and is usually found in disturbed habitats. However, in a study of genome-wide diversity markers, Tibet was found to be an additional center of domestication of cultivated barley. Kingdom: Plantae Subkingdom: Tracheobionta-Vascular plants Superdivision: Spermatophyta-Seed plants Division: Magnoliophyta-Flowering plants Class: Liliopsida – Monocotyledons Subclass: Commelinidae Order: Cyperales Family: Poaceae Subfamily: Pooideae Tribe: Triticeae Genus: Hordeum Species: H. vulgare
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Location: Broomhill, Boat of Garten. Stathspey. Inverness-shire. Scotland.
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