Oryza sativa
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Oryza sativa, having the common name Asian cultivated rice, is the much more common of the two rice species cultivated as a cereal, the other species being O. glaberrima, African rice. It was first do
Mature Rice by Augustus Binu
Oryza sativa at Kadavoor
Water buffalo ploughing a rice paddyfield, Java
Jumli Marshi, brown rice from Nepal
Oryza glaberrima
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Oryza glaberrima, commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species.
Karabane, Senegal, 2008. Dikes protect the rice paddy fields from saltwater; the irrigation skims the freshwater layer off the high tide. Similar delta cultivation techniques were used going back to at least the 15th century in South Carolina.
Similar dike, Hampton Plantation, 2010, long abandoned and reclaimed by woodland
With inedible husk