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Triticum timopheevii
Also called Zanduri Wheat
Timopheev's wheat (Triticum timopheevii), also called Zanduri wheat, is a tetraploid annual grass in the Poaceae family with both wild and cultivated forms. The cultivated form is grown mainly in western Georgia, and the wild form grows across south-eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, western Iran and Transcaucasia. It is a cereal grass grown for its grain, so the key to growing it is a cool-season, full-sun annual grain crop.
Triticum timopheevii, Timopheev's wheat or Zanduri wheat (from Georgian ზანდური), is a tetraploid wheat that has both cultivated and wild forms. It is believed to have evolved in isolation from the more common Triticum turgidum; hybrids between T. timopheevii and T. turgidum are reportedly sterile with "a considerable amount of chromosomal irregularities in meiosis."
The wild form (formerly categorized as T. araraticum Jakubz.) can be found across south-eastern Turkey, north Iraq, west Iran and Transcaucasia - but the domesticated form is restricted to western Georgia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Triticum timopheevii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
