Wild rice
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Wild rice, also called manoomin, mnomen, psíŋ, Canada rice, Indian rice, or water oats, is any of four species of grasses that form the genus Zizania, and the grain that can be harvested from them. Th
Zizania palustris
A 19th century illustration of Native Americans harvesting wild rice
Ojibwa pouch for holding wild rice, cedar bark, American Museum of Natural History
Processed wild rice
Oryzeae
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Oryzeae is a tribe of flowering plants in the true grass family, Poaceae. It contains 11 genera, including both cultivated rice and wild rice.
Wild rice
…where the plant's stem is used as a vegetable. Wild rice and domesticated rice (Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima) are in the same botanical tribe Oryzeae. Wild-rice grains have a chewy outer sheath with a tender inner grain that has a slightly vegetal taste. The plants grow in shallow water in small lakes…
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