Maize smut at Kew
Ustilago maydis is occasionally recorded galling the stems and flowering parts of maize in the grass garden, but is not often seen.
Ornamental Corn, Maize, Mealie
Although it requires lots of space, water, good soil and fertilizer, this is one of the vegetables worth making room for.
This maize relative is naturalized in Hawaii and is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental . The pearl-like accessory fruits are sometimes used for lei construction.
Common Names
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or milo maize: see sorghum.
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Sorghum - tall, coarse annual somewhat similar in appearance to corn (but having the grain in a panicle rather than an ear) and used for much the same purposes. Probably indigenous to Africa, it is one of the .
Maize (called corn in North America) is a fascinating plant. It is an annual grass whose female inflorescence is an axial raceme (the cob) of spikelets (becoming grains, a.k.a. kernels), each with a long, ...
On a rich soil a crop of maize or vegetables is grown during the rainy season, and after its removal in September the ground is prepared for the poppy-culture.
Trials were made of this plant in the higher valleys, where Beans and Maize were not well adapted, owing to the uncertainty of their yield.
The domestication of maize seems to have occurred in seasonal tropical forests in southwestern Mexico, perhaps the Balsas valley, some 8,700 years before present (Piperno et al. 2009; Ranere et al. 2009: summarized in Hastorf 2009); ...
Corn (Zea mays), also called maize, is a type of cereal grass; it is an edible grain. This tall, annual plant has long, alternately-spaced blade-like leaves, and a strong, solid stem.
These scenes allude to a Mayan resurrection myth of Hun Hunahpu, who was slain, beheaded, & reborn as maize.
Callisia fragrans is a low growing plant that has waxy leaves that have a slight purplish color underneath, reminding maize with alternating placement on its stem. Green leaves that will turn purplish at the edges when placed in strong light.
Human nutrition depends to a large extent on cereals, especially maize (or corn), wheat and rice. Other staple crops include potato, cassava, and legumes.
(syn: Agave YD 13-74) This unusual agave comes from Ciudad de Maize, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, where it was spotted in 2001 by Yucca Do's Wade Roitsch.
Globally, wheat is an important human food, its production being second only to maize among the cereal crops; rice ranks third.
For example, corn or maize was grown in rows because it made pollination easier. Beans that couldn't grow without a trellis were trained on poles or cornstalks.
Augusta thistle, caltrop, caltrops, Chinese thistle, maize thorn, purple cockspur, purple star thistle, purple star-thistle, purple starthistle, red star thistle, red star-thistle, red starthistle, saucy Bob, star thistle, two-star thistle, ...
Description:
Corn Lily is neither maize nor a lily, but rather a member of the Iris Family.
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Description: Cornsilk refers to the stigmas from the female flowers of maize., fine soft threads 10-20cm long. When fresh, they are like silk threads of a light green or yellow-brown colour; when dry, they resemble fine, dark, crinkled hairs.
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Corn originated from what the Indians called maize and it has a diverse history. Essentially corn is a grass that has been crossed to flower kernels.
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Pumpkins and the odd assemblage of squashes represent one of the three food crops cultivated by Native Americans at the time of European arrival. The others were corn (maize) and beans.
The leaves are used as a snack, being nibbled for their refreshing qualities[183, 257]. In Mexico the herb is used as a catalyst in the preparation of 'tesguino', an alcoholic beverage produced from sprouted maize[183].
Medicinal Uses ...
An extract of the leaves is used to flavor candy and soft drinks. In Mexico the herb is used in the preparation of 'navaitai', an alcoholic beverage produced from sprouted maize. A tea can be made from an infusion of the stems and roots.
(Cutler's words in his 1964, Career Statement. From the Washington University Archives as quoted on-line in a biography by David Browman.) Cutler's collection of more than 12,000 ears of native species of maize is now with the Department of ...
 See also: Green, May, Corn, Grass, Varieties
  
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