Calrose rice
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Calrose is a medium grain rice variety, notable for being the founding variety of the California rice industry.
Sign in Biggs, California, stating it is "the heart of rice country"
White, Brown, Red & Wild rice
Rice
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Rice is a cereal grain and, in its domesticated form, is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Africa and Asia. Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa —or
Rice plant (Oryza sativa) with branched panicles containing many grains on each stem
Rice grains of different varieties at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
Anatomy of rice flowers: spikelet (left), plant with tillers (centre), caryopsis (top right), panicle (right)
Detail of rice plant showing flowers grouped in panicle. Male anthers protrude into the air where they can disperse their pollen.