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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