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The birdseed so tiny finches need a speed-dating app just to find it.
means A small oily black seed (from the African yellow daisy plant Guizotia abyssinica) sold as specialty feed for finches and other small songbirds.
from Not from Nigeria, despite the whispered folk guess — it comes from the plant's genus relative, sometimes called 'niger seed' after the Latin 'niger' meaning black, describing the seed's color. Importers trademarked the respelling 'Nyjer' in the 1990s partly to dodge the confusing, loaded old name and standardize labeling on birdseed bags. The plant itself has long been grown in Ethiopia and India, mainly for its oil.
- not thistle
- unrelated to invasive Canada thistle despite the nickname
- sterilized seed
- heat-treated at import to stop weed germination
- origin
- grown mainly in Ethiopia and India
- feeder design
- tiny mesh holes exist solely to thwart greedy sparrows