How to distinguish rye from wheat

Cereals, especially rye and wheat are ingredients of many medicines. Including those that a person can prepare with your own hands. However, the modern citizen is not always well versed in these plants, especially rye and wheat are of many varieties. However, these cultures are markedly different from each other.

You will need

• -stalks or shoots of rye and wheat.

Instruction

1. Proustite grain. Donate a pair of tiny rastignac and gently dig them from the earth. In color to distinguish them while it is difficult, but the math roots. Four of them have rye, wheat — only three. If you have little grains and you fear for the future harvest, put plants back in. They will take root.
2. If you missed the point and pull the sprouts out of the ground have been a pity to wait till the first leaves. These two cultures they are different colors. Rye leaf painted in a reddish color., but in some varieties it can be bluish or bluish. It depends not only on varieties but also on the conditions, primarily temperature. First true leaves of wheat, regardless of variety, are green, and quite bright. And she almost does not depend on external conditions.
3. It may be that you need to distinguish these plants when they have grown, but not ripe. Rye is the tallest of the cereal crops, but there are also quite tall varieties of wheat, so it's not very bright contrast. Pay attention to the color. Immature rye is painted in grey, wheat green.
4. Consider the ears. In both plants they are complex, but are very different in structure. Ear of rye and some varieties of hard wheat has a vertical spine. But the rye they are long and almost vertical. The awns of wheat are much shorter. Some hard varieties, they are also vertical, and the rest - are aimed in different directions. Ear of rye is located on "the web", which consists of separate fragments with overhangs. The projections are small spikes. Let's consider them. Each should be 3 flowers, and one of them undeveloped. From wheat , you will see two spike scales. Each of them is some of the same flowers. Their number varies in different varieties from two to seven. In addition, the soft varieties of wheat awns pointing upwards and to the sides. Flowers wheat soopysue, unlike rye, the pollen which carries the wind.
5. Consider the caryopsis of both plants. And at rye, and wheat — simple odnoimennoy the fetus, but it has a different shape. From the wheat caryopsis is thick and short, in cross section nearly round. At rye it's long and thin.