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Thursday, September 30, 2010
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West Amwell, NJ
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This is actually not a picture of corn, but of teosinte. It's very similar to corn, and can even cross with corn. It may have even been the ancestor to modern corn. It's actually two plants in the picture. One on each side of the trellis. Unlike corn, teosinte produces many stalks on a single plant. These plants are about 10-11 feet tall. Last year my plants were about 15 feet, but they fell over during a storm. This teosinte is a native of guatemala. I've never been able to get it to produce seed grown in the yard because it's very photoperiod sensitive. This particular type is called Zea mays subsp. huehuetenangensis
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