alt Hacker NewsCalrose, the primary rice grown in California is a Japonica, its just Japanese rice grown in America. Tamanishiki, which is one of the high grade sushi rices is grown in the US and Japan
It is O. s. subsp. japonica
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Izikiel43 • yesterday at 2:34 AM
Good to know, however I always buy short grain brown rice, I like that one better.
> Calrose, the primary rice grown in California
Surprising, because while its widely available in California it seems to be a tiny minority of available rice. A search I did says it is 80% of California's crop, so presumably a lot of it is exported?