Flint corn is a variety of corn which is extraordinarily hard, but still usable in a wide range of applications. Dried ears of flint corn are sometimes used decoratively, because they have distinctive and colorful kernels.
Flint corn - Zea mays var. indurata
Sweetcorn - Zea mays var. saccharata and Zea mays var. rugosa
Waxy corn - Zea mays var. ceratina
Amylomaize - Zea mays
Pod corn - Zea mays var. tunicata Larrañaga ex A. St. Hil.
Striped maize - Zea mays var.
Some wild types will pop, but the cultivated strain is Zea mays L. subsp. mays (Everta Group), which is a special kind of flint corn. First developed by precolumbian Native Americans, popcorn is now a popular snack food all over the world.
Most Rhode Islanders insist that a johnnycake isn't authentic unless it's made from whitecap flint corn grown and ground into meal in Rhode Island, preferably with millstones made of Rhode Island granite.
Hominy, or posole, is usually made from decorative corn, as is masa harina, which is dried posole meal, used for making tamales and tortillas. Decorative corn is often referred to as Indian Corn, but it is more properly known as Flint Corn.
In starchy sweet corn (var. amylea-saccharata) the grain has the external appearance of sweet corn, but examination shows the lower half to be starchy, the upper horny and translucent. A form of flint corn, with variegated leaves, ...
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