Raw Wheat Seeds

The flowers are grouped into spikelets, each with between two and six flowers. Each fertilised carpel develops into a wheat grain or berry; botanically a fruit, it is often called a seed. The grains ripen to a golden yellow; a head of grain is called an ear. Wheat seed is an oblong shape with a blunt tip. The seed is gold to pale yellow in colour, with a papery texture. It is 6mm in length. The wheat seedling produces a slender coleoptile, followed by a true leaf. Wheat is a bunch grass with upright tillers. The leaves are rolled in the whorl. Leaf blades are smooth near the base and rough near tip on the upper side. Lower side entirely smooth. Leaf sheath is round and split with overlapping margins and may be smooth or hairy.