short zea update

northern tepehuan teosinte ears continue to emerge and develop...as autumn progresses so do they...

and if you look closely at the bulges on the center ears in this photo you can just make out the nascent seeds...

while the emerging flowers behave lake all grasses from gamagrass to rye to wheat...

and while we are talking flowers, my supposition that those serrated edges on those oddly bunched leaves on the zea mays parvaglumis were an indication of incipient flowers has proved correct...i found three this evening...still no expectation of viable seed from such a long season...there's always hope though.