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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.
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:
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]
This harvesting is typically performed by canoe—as the plants grow partially submerged in shallow water—and the sticks are used to knock the rice into the canoe or a collection vessel. [4] Any stick can be used, but ricing sticks are normally tapered, blunt sticks, sometimes with a flattened end, with a thicker end, sometimes lined in cloth ...
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 ]
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]
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 ...