Wheat: It is a general term for plants of the genus Triticum, which has a long history of cultivation and is widely distributed.Its caryopsis is one of the staple foods of human beings, which can be made into bread, steamed bread and other foods after being ground into flour, as well as beer, liquor and so on.It is one of the three major cereals, almost the whole plant can be used as food.
Oats: It is an ancient crop, one of the eight major food crops of cereal crops.It belongs to Gramineae, Avena, Avena, is an important food widely planted around the world, can also be used as feed crops, drought resistance, cold resistance, can endure barren.It also has high nutritional value and certain medical effects.
Plant Distinction: Wheat stems are erect, tufted, 60 to 100 centimeters high, and 5 to 7 millimeters in diameter.Its leaf sheaths loosely enclose the stem, the ligule is membranous, about a millimeter in length, and the leaves are long lanceolate.The stem of oats is erect and smooth, the sheath of leaves is smooth, the back is hairy, the ligule is large, there are no auricles, and the leaves are flat.
Flower differences: Wheat inflorescences are erect spikes, about five to ten centimeters long and one to one and a half centimeters wide, with three to nine flowers in the spikelets.The flowers of oats are paniculate, the cob is pendulous or erect, the inflorescence is terminal, and the spikelet contains two or several florets.
Fruit distinction: The fruit of wheat is caryopsis, the pericarp is yellow-brown, the shape is oblate or oval, the two ends of the fruit are pointed or blunt, and there are starch grains inside.The powder of the fruit is white, mixed with small pieces of yellow-brown skin.The caryopsis of oats is broad and herbaceous in texture, and the lemma is hard and glabrous, some with awns and some without.The abdomen of its caryopsis has longitudinal grooves and is covered with sparse hairs.At maturity, palea and lemma are tightly wrapped around the grain and are not easily separated.
