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The species most commonly harvested as grain are the annual species: Zizania palustris and Zizania aquatica. The former, though now domesticated and grown commercially, is still often gathered from lakes in the traditional manner, especially by indigenous peoples in North America; the latter was also used extensively in the past. [ 11 ]
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.
This is a list of rice cultivars, also known as rice varieties. There are several species of grain called rice. [ 1 ] Asian rice ( Oryza sativa) is most widely known and most widely grown, with two major subspecies ( indica and japonica ) and over 40,000 varieties. [ 2 ]
In terms of oxidation, it falls somewhere between green and black tea and offers more caffeine than green tea but less than black. Health benefits: Oolong tea hasn’t been as widely investigated ...
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Various squashes such as Turban, Sweet Dumpling, Carnival, Gold Acorn, Delicata, Buttercup and Golden Nugget. Corn, beans and squash were domesticated in Mesoamerica around 3500 BCE. Potatoes, quinoa and manioc were domesticated in South America. In what is now the eastern United States, Native Americans domesticated sunflower and sumpweed ...
Claviceps zizaniae is a plant pathogen that causes ergot in the wild rice species Zizania aquatica and Z. palustris.Originally described in 1920 as Spermoedia zizaniae by Faith Fyles, [2] it was transferred to Claviceps in 1959 by Maria E. Pantidou. [3]
Zizaniopsis miliacea is a species of flowering plant in the grass family, Poaceae. [2] It is known by the common names giant cutgrass, water millet, and southern wildrice.The name giant cutgrass refers to the plant's large, rough-edged leaves, and the name southern wildrice refers to its resemblance to wildrice (Zizania spp.). [3]