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Wild rice, also called manoomin, mnomen, Psíŋ, Canada rice, Indian rice, or water oats, is any of four species of grasses that form the genus Zizania, and the grain that can be harvested from them. The grain was historically and is still gathered and eaten in North America and, to a lesser extent, China , [ 2 ] where the plant's stem is used ...
Oryza coarctata is a form of wild rice that grows in saline estuaries and is harvested and eaten as a delicacy. [3] The plant is salt-tolerant, and is seen as a possibly important source of salt-tolerance genes for transfer to other rice species. [4] [5] It is closely related to Oryza australiensis. [6]
Zizania latifolia, known as Manchurian wild rice [5] (Chinese: 菰; pinyin: gū), is the only member of the wild rice genus Zizania native to Asia. It is used as a food plant. Both the stem and grain are edible. Gathered in the wild, Manchurian wild rice was an important grain in ancient China.
Wild rice is an annual plant, meaning it completes its entire life cycle in one growing season and then dies. ... Wild rice is pictured in the floating-leaf stage on the upper Mississippi River in ...
African rice is a tall rice plant, usually under 120 centimetres (47 in) but up to 5 metres (16 feet) for floating varieties, which may also branch and root from higher stem nodes. [4] Generally, African rice has small, pear-shaped grain, reddish bran and green to black hulls , straight, simply-branched panicles , and short, rounded ligules .
Oryza rufipogon is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae. [2] [3] It is known as brownbeard rice, [4] wild rice, [5] and red rice. [5] In 1965, Oryza nivara was separated off from O. rufipogon. The separation has been questioned, [6] and now many sources consider O. nivara to be a synonym of O. rufipogon. [7]
Echinochloa colonum, commonly known as jungle rice, wild rice, deccan grass, jharua or awnless barnyard grass, [1] is a type of wild grass originating from tropical Asia. It was formerly classified as a species of Panicum. It is the wild ancestor of the cultivated cereal crop Echinochloa frumentacea, sawa millet. [2]
Oryzeae is a tribe of flowering plants in the true grass family, Poaceae. It contains 11 genera, including both cultivated rice and wild rice (Zizania). Genera