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:
Danish landrace duck Danish landrace goose
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 Twente Landrace goose
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