"When I was young, I was like a weed. When I was old, I was covered with gold ornaments." It is the period when rice just germinates and grows, like a weed. When ripe, the ears of rice in the head are full, like gold jewelry.
"Jewelry is cherished by everyone, and no one in the world does not rely on it." People mainly eat rice ears, so they cherish them. People have to eat and eat nutrients to maintain their lives, so no one has to rely on them.
Morphological characteristics:
Rice bends downward when it matures; Spikelets contain 1 mature flower, both sides are extremely flat, oblong and oval, about 10 mm long and 2-4 mm wide; The glume is very small, leaving only a half-moon mark at the top of spikelet stalk, and there are two degenerated lemmas, which are conical and 2-4 mm long; The lemma of pregnant flowers on both sides is thick, with 5 veins, and the midvein is ridged.
There are milky white bumps on the surface, thick paper, dense hairs all over the fine hairs, and there is no awning; Palea and lemma are homogeneous, with 3 veins and no beak at the apex; Stamens 6, anthers 2-3 mm long.