"Pandora" > wrote in
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> "Wayne Boatwright" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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>> Pandodra, if it hasn't already been said, wild rice is not a grain
>> like regular rice. It is the seed of a grass, and that is why it
>> opens as it cooks.
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> But also normal rice is a grass cultivated in shallow water! Or I'm
> wrong?

No, you're not wrong. "Normal" rice and wild rice are both grasses
belonging to the family Poaceae, and rice grains and wild rice grains are
both the seeds of the grass. However, the plants belong to two different
genera.

Rice is the grain of the plant Oryza sativa. There are, as you would
know, many varieties and cultivars - short grain, long grain, basmati,
jasmine, arborio, carnaroli etc, but they are all Oryza sativa.

Wild rice is the grain of the plant Zizania aquatica


Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia