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To: SunkenCiv

What in the world did rice evolve from???


2 posted on 05/18/2020 10:51:15 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

Rice is a type of grass. Wheat, barley, etc are too. You eat the grass seeds.


5 posted on 05/18/2020 10:58:13 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Texas Eagle

“...This was supported by a genetic study in 2011 that showed that all forms of Asian rice, both indica and japonica, sprang from a single domestication event that occurred 13,500 to 8,200 years ago in China from the wild rice Oryza rufipogon……”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice


6 posted on 05/18/2020 10:59:32 AM PDT by Reily
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