The Norwegian Forest cat is a breed of domestic cat originating in Northern Europe. This landrace breed is adapted to a very cold climate, with a top coat of long, glossy hair and a woolly undercoat for insulation. The breed's ancestors may have been a landrace breed of short-haired cats brought to Norway about A.D. 1000 by the Vikings, who may also have brought with them long-haired cats, like those ancestral to the modern Siberian and Turkish Angora.
Amber blotched tabby and white female
Amber tabby and white adult female in snow
Blue tabby female kitten
Adult female showing typical body conformation
A landrace is a domesticated, locally adapted, often traditional variety of a species of animal or plant that has developed over time, through adaptation to its natural and cultural environment of agriculture and pastoralism, and due to isolation from other populations of the species. Landraces are distinct from cultivars and from standard breeds.
Domestic shorthair cat, a landrace of Felis catus
A basket of landrace snap melons Cucumis melo subspecies agrestis, cultivar group Momordica from Pemba town, northern Mozambique. The landrace incorporates different colours and patterns of the fruit surface and is the only melon cultivar group in northern Mozambique.[citation needed]
A morphologically diverse group of fruit from the Zapallo Plomo landrace of Cucurbita maxima squash
Carosello and Barattiere, Italian landraces of Cucumis melo whose fruits are eaten unripe
