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Kent Woolly Eared

list by Andy Forbes

Kent Woolly Eared is a white winter wheat originating in the counties of Kent and Essex near London. It has a relatively long ear with furry or velvet chaff. In 1753 Ellis in his book of Farm Husbandry when reviewing the wheat grown at the time stated the typical London loaf of the time was a third Red Lammas with two thirds Kent Woolly Eared.

Kent Woolly Eared has many synonyms. Percival in his 1934 edition of the "Wheat in Great Britain" lists "Rough Chaff White", "Velvet Chaff", "Hedge wheat", "Old Hoary", "Hoary White" and "Tunstall" noting that commonly grown in Essex, Kent and Sussex and other southern and south-midland counties. Most surviving examples are via the Vilmorin seed company and therefore France - the Vilmorin 1880 book "Les meilleurs blés" gives two examples "Blé a duvet" and " Blé Tunstall ou Blé de haie" making clear English origin. Despite this many European genebank accessions wrongly give origin as France (and make multiple spelling mistakes of the French names).

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