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Water is used to flood rice fields in order to harvest the grain, not to grow it. Wild rice actually grows in the water and only the flowering head of the grass sticks up over the water's surface.
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]
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]
Southern or annual wild rice (Z. aquatica), also an annual, grows in the Saint Lawrence River, the state of Florida, [5] and on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. [6] [7] Texas wild rice is a perennial plant found only in a small area along the San Marcos River in central Texas. One species is native to Asia:
The grass is not grown for its grain, as are other wild rice species, but for the stems, which swell into juicy galls when infected with the smut. The galled stems are harvested as a vegetable called gau-soon and kal-peh-soon [ 5 ] ( Pe̍h-ōe-jī : kha-pe̍h-sún ; [ 6 ] also, gau sun and kah peh sung ) [ 2 ] and jiaobai in China . [ 7 ]
In the fall, Kuchma wants to plant wild rice in the wetland, which also grows in another successfully restored wetland nearby. Later this winter the Oneida Nation will go through a formal process ...
This grass, a member of the same genus as commercially sold wild rice, is an aquatic plant that grows in the water with only its stem tips rising above the surface. It grows 1 to 2 metres (3.3 to 6.6 ft) long but the stems have been known to reach 5 metres (16 ft) in length.
O. australiensis is a wild relative of other rice species and endemic to the tropical regions of northern Australia. Three other wild Oryza species are distributed across and endemic to northern Australia. [8] Within northern Australia, it is found in wet areas near or on the edge of fresh water. It grows in the open in black, clay, or red loam ...