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African rice
Oryza glaberrima
About
Oryza glaberrima, commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown in West Africa, and was brought to the Americas by enslaved West African rice farmers. It is now largely a subsistence crop, rarely sold in markets even in West Africa.
- Family
- Poaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Oryza glaberrima
- Slug
- oryza-glaberrima
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Oryza
- Species
- glaberrima
- Wikidata QID
- Q2670252
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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