Tuesday, October 15, 2013

zea diploperennis

zea diploperennis flowers in the pgp.

5 comments:

  1. how many seeds do you get per plant? 1/3 of corn? 1/5?

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  2. the season here is far too short to ever have the perennial strain produce seed outdoors...it was mid-october when these had just begun to flower, frost killed them back long before there was a chance of seed. i have had success in producing viable seed in the annual strain and when those plants reach full size they can generate thirty or forty seed ears, but with only a single row of seed per ear my estimate would be absolutely no more than a third of the seed a maize plant could produce...i have more annual teosinte in my back yard so we will see what this season brings.

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  3. Dear Fred,

    Can I use your second photo on this page for an article about the Zea mays on Monaco Nature Encyclopedia? What name I have to put for your copyright?

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