Secale sylvestre
a perennial member of the Secale genus in the family Gramineae.
Taxonomy and growth
Uses
Edible uses
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Seed - cooked[3][5][2]. It can be used whole, or ground into a flour and used as a cereal.
- Plant part
- Seed
Environment
- Range
- Europe to Tropical Asia.
- Habitat
- Sandy soils[4].
- Light
- full sun
- Shade tolerance
- no shade
- Water
- moderate
- Soil textures
- sandy, loamy, clay
- Soil pH
- acid, neutral, alkaline
- Drainage
- well drained
- Tolerances
- drought
- Tolerates Nutritionally Poor Soil
- No
- Drought
- tolerant
Propagation
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Seed - sow March or October in situ and only just cover the seed. Germination should take place within 2 weeks.
Cultivation
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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[1]. Cultivated for its seed in the mountains of Tibet and China[3][5].
References
F. Chittendon. RHS Dictionary of Plants plus Supplement. 1956 Oxford University Press 1951-00-00
Tanaka. T. Tanaka's Cyclopaedia of Edible Plants of the World. Keigaku Publishing 1976-00-00
Uphof. J. C. Th. Dictionary of Economic Plants. Weinheim 1959-00-00
? Flora Europaea Cambridge University Press 1964-00-00
Usher. G. A Dictionary of Plants Used by Man. Constable 1974-00-00 ISBN 0094579202