just a few photos i took of a mature northern tepehuan teosinte plant in my backyard on a rainy evening...those structures look like miniatures of the mazie ears i grew on campus this past season...i am really hoping that the seed formation beats the frost here...when i calculated this out in 2009 for kathy i had it pegged as a very close affair...if the first frost held off a few days past its average date we had a chance to see the cycle through...about a month left to go and there's no real telling what will happen...i have a bunch more seeds i bought form native seed search and i have more zea diploperennis seeds form the germplasm introduction station in ames iowa....so there will be more teosinte next season...still that's no guarantee of a complete cycle if it fails this season...i'd much rather succeed now
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