[Sca-cooks] wild rice

[Terry Decker]

Wild rice is Zizania acquatica.  Common rice is Oryza sative.  Zizania fills 
the niche in northern North America that Oryza fills in the more tropic 
climes.  You really shouldn't have much on Zizania in the Florilegium 
because it is a North American plant that doesn't seem to appear in period 
texts.  The chief botanical differences between the two species appear to be 
the conformation of the stems and how the heads of grain are produced and 
are positioned on the stems.

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