Rice
ಭತ್ತओराय्ज़ा सैटिवाநெல்
Oryza sativa L.
- light
- —
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- —
Poaceae
Formerly Oryza communissima, Oryza formosana, Oryza glutinosa, Oryza montana, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or helophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 79 cm to 1.2 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Bangla
- ধান
- Chinese
- 稻草, 稻, 粳米
- Slovenian
- riž
- Tamil
- நெல், ஒரைசா சட்டைவா
- Malayalam
- അരി, നെല്ല്, നെല്ല്
- Simplified Chinese
- 稻, 粳, 糯
- Japanese
- イネ
- Czech
- rýže setá
- French
- riz asiatique
- Hindi
- ओराय्ज़ा सैटिवा
- Telugu
- వరి
- Kannada
- ಭತ್ತ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Oryza sativa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.