On Food and Cooking

Triticum    turgidum    (tetraploid):

Emmer   (hulled;    T.  turgidum    dicoccum)

Durum   (T. turgidum    durum)

Khorasan    (T. turgidum    turanicum)

Polish  (T. turgidum    polonicum)

Persian (T. turgidum    carthlicum)

Triticum    turgidum    +   a   goatgrass,  Aegilops

tauschii

Triticum    aestivum(hexaploid):

Common, bread   wheat   (T. aestivum

aestivum)

Spelt   (hulled;    T.  aestivum    spelta)

Club    (T. aestivum    compactum)

Kamut Kamut is the registered trademark for
an ancient relative of durum wheat, a
subspecies of T. turgidum. The modern
production and commercialization of kamut
(Egyptian for “wheat”) began after World
War II, when seeds said to have been