Zea Mays

Zea Mays

fruits of the field

Date(s): 2005/6. Photos by aymar. 1 - 22 of 22 Total. 2643 Visits.

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Zea Mays
"Maize" is Taino source language, even if it sounds suspiciously like Maia (the Roman Goddess of May - with some licence: the Goddess of spring mayoring in plant stretching). Cicero, next time I will send a postcard from Chichen Itza to prove it all. - 'Mazena' is either the Spanish word for corn flower or just a clever tradename - or both. Admit that 'hominy', soul food and grits, does not quite fit in. Apparently no bilateral Algonquian Taino agreement on a common tradename.

"Zea" is standard Greek, 'grass something'. Apparently no living relatives. Well, it cannot always be 'emmer' and 'amylin'. Particular counter indication: Unrelated with zoology (the Aristotelian study center for fast moving particles - you beechnut, I squirrel.)

"Corn of Wales, Welsch-korn". Obviously because it was once grown exclusively on the Northern slopes of the Matterhorn (Canton Wallis) and in the Glamorgan region. Exactly the same regions which were once famous for their exten...

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Zea Mays
The rust colored silks. Slight velcro quality. Some useful health food properties. The somewhat different tea. (Somewhat starchy taste. Makes for a change. Most fruit teas are somewhat acidic. You do not get a high vitamin C content for nothing.)

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Zea Mays
the war bonnet parts

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Zea Mays
Maize may look like a shrub, it is technically still a monocot and even a grass. The parallel leaf veins do not lie.

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Zea Mays
The stunted growth should be inconvertible proof that some trees can indeed cast a baleful shadow. Careless campers beware. Might even come up with a distance related formula.

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Zea Mays
Ominous smoke stack. Is there a railway station in the vicinity. Probably just a needfire. Speaking of sacrificial services. A quick dive into the nearest ditch probably advisable. A masked lynch mob may pass by any moment, torches swinging. Tuneless polychromatic chant: Down with the polyploid abomination. Back to unadulterated breakfast cereals.

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Zea Mays
In rank and file, waiting for a pivoting command. - Is there a military command equivalent to color castling. Disjunctively: the dry rustle of Belle Epoque skirts.

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Zea Mays
Technically, adventitious roots. Learning wheels if you ask me. The related Cattail is propped in a similar fashion. (Ornate version: tainted with mangrove blood and tassels.) As for the learning wheels, somewhere mentioned in Macbeth. Whole fields of Indian Corn on the warpath. There is no escape from life's battle camouflage. - Could obviously also be something trivial like the Masonic finger sign for a high 'c'.

Unclear, the need for an efficient water metabolism in a near swamp plant. Maize is a member of the illustrious C4 club (some kind of CO2 nite-rate storage)

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Zea Mays
husking gloves are recommended

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Zea Mays
toothy welcome

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Zea Mays
best advice, next time stay hooded

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Corn Smut
Corn smut. Apparently no ergot type side effects or it would not be legal to market it. (In bad taste: Have an abortion in your favorite restaurant.) Not that the culinary usage has caught on so far. Personal opinion: somebody would have to discover health food properties to make that fly. Wikipedia wisdom: the Aztec word for corn smut 'huitlacoche' may mean 'raven's excrement'. A rather apt description and hardly the worst marketing strategy. Some non Aztec licorice goes by a rather similar colloquial name.

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Corn Smut

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Corn Smut
The fungal 'horns' should only appear on overripe corn smut.

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Zea Mays
advanced observation post

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Zea Mays
Cadmos seeds, sort of

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tracks within tracks
Neolithic heirloom: heavy loess soil. Somewhat hard to show the 10 fathoms of depth without a convenient building lot excavation.
[There is a difference in color quality. I did splice in some older 2005 pictures. Two different cameras.]

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Zea Mays + Crepis capillaris
Sideshow: Corn amidst a ground cover of Smooth Hawkweed. Cavalry thronged by footsoldiers. Just some suggestive footage.

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Zea Mays + Crepis capillaris

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Zea Mays + Crepis capillaris

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Zea Mays + Crepis capillaris

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Zea Mays + Crepis capillaris

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