MULTILINGUAL MULTISCRIPT PLANT NAME DATABASE

A SAMPLING OF CORN TYPES

and some known cultivars

All photographs below are copyrighted Michel H. Porcher

See relative sizes of most displayed below

 

'Strawberry' popcorn


'Mini Black' popcorn


Flint corn 'Hopi Blue'


Sweet corn 'Anasazi Red '


Floor corn 'Blue Aztec'

 


Unidentified white-seeded flint corn

Ornamental flint corn showing 2 typical types of seed-arrangement
(older var. on top, more recent improved var. on the bottom)


Flint corn 'Puño' (Peru)


Early composite colour-seeded silage corn


A selection from a mixed parentage of 'Maris Carmine' corn for early silage


A selection from a mixed parentage of 'Maris Carmine' corn for early silage


Red-seeded dent corn 'Red Aztec'

(Query stickiness of freshly-harvested cobs : genetic character or crossed with sweet corn)


White-seeded dent corn / dent maize 'Silver Russian'

 


Unidentified multicoloured flint corn


Unidentified multicoloured ornamental corn - Flint type


Unidentified multicoloured ornamental corn - Flint type

 


Unidentified multicoloured ornamental corn - Flint type


Unidentified multicoloured ornamental corns - Flint type & 'Mini Black' popcorn, showing relative sizes.

 

All above photographs are copyrighted Michel H. Porcher

 

 

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Date created: 09 / 12 / 2001
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Last modified: 26 / 08 / 2002
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