A landrace is a type of domestic animal or plant adapted to the natural and cultural environment in which it originated, with minimal selective breeding. Some have "landrace" in the names:
The term is also used informally in reference to cannabis plants to designate specific varieties, e.g. Colombian Gold, etc.; these are more properly cultivars, not landraces.
Capitalized, the term is also used in the name of several "Landrace breeds", selectively-bred, standardized breeds, derived wholly or in part from actual landraces:
- Pigs
- American Landrace pig
- Belgian Landrace pig
- British Landrace pig
- Bulgarian Landrace pig
- Canadian Landrace pig
- Danish Landrace pig
- Dutch Landrace pig
- Finnish Landrace pig
- French Landrace pig
- German Landrace pig
- Italian Landrace pig
- Norwegian Landrace pig
- Polish Landrace pig
- South African Landrace pig
- Swedish Landrace pig
- Swiss Landrace pig
- Geese
- Goats
- British Landrace goat, better known as the British Primitive goat or Old British goat; it subsumes earlier classifications:
- English Landrace goat
- Irish Landrace goat
- Scottish Landrace goat
- Welsh Landrace goat
- Danish Landrace goat
- Dutch Landrace goat
- Finnish Landrace goat
- Swedish Landrace goat
- Sheep
- Danish Landrace sheep
- Finnish Landrace sheep, or Finnsheep
- Old Norwegian Short Tail Landrace, or Spælsau
See also
All pages with titles beginning with Landrace
Topics referred to by the same term
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