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To: long-gone who wrote (84587)	4/20/2002 5:33:18 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 116761

Taxonomy ****** The genus, Zizania, was named by Gronovius in Leyden, Holland from a plant collected in Virginia by John Clayton in 1739 (Aiken et al. 1988). Linnaeus in 1753 provided the binomial Zizania aquatica from the Clayton specimen. There are four species of wild rice: Z. palustris L., Z. aquatica L., Z. texana Hitchcock, and Z. latifolia (Griseb.) Turcz. ex Stapf. The first three are native to North America and the last is native to Asia. Z. palustris and Z. aquatica are annuals, the others perennials. Z. palustris, the large seeded type, grows in the Great Lakes region and is the species grown as a field crop (Fig. 2). Z. aquatica grows in the St. Lawrence River, eastern and southeastern United States coastal areas, and in Louisiana. Its seeds are slender and are not harvested for food. Z. texana grows in a small area in Texas, has slender seeds, and also is not harvested for food. North American species have a chromosome number of 2n = 30; Z. latifolia has 2n = 34 (Aiken et al. 1988). *********** Of course not! Wild rice is wild oats. *********** Rice Taxonomy Superkingdom: Eukaryota Kingdom: Viridiplantae Subkingdom: Embryophyta Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Subclass: Commelinidae Order: Cyperales Family: Poaceae Genus: oryza species: sativa Wild Rice ****** Kingdom: Plantae Same Phylum: Magnoliophyta same Class: Liliopsida same Order: Cyperales same Family: Poaceae same Genus: Zizania Species: texana So we see that wild rice, common to Asia as well, and probably the ancestor of domestic rice, is in the same phylum, class, order and family as domestic rice of asia. It is a grain with closely similar seed, and parent plant, grows in an aquatic environment and has similar composition and nutritional value. It is as different from domestic rice as, say, maize is from corn. *********