teosinte

the teosinte ears out back...

are beginning to show a more defined separation from the stems...

in ways that more clearly show their relation ship to the domesticated ( and here, highly engineered ) descendants out in the fields of dense yellow #2...

even though they both may produce multiple ears on a single plant i am inclined th o think the ancestor does it more elegantly..

meanwhile, over at the zea mays parvaglumis...

the peculiar way these leaves are unfurling with serrated edges indicates that a flower is about to be deployed...about on schedule...it is nearly october...the chances of any sort of viable seed from these plants is virtually nil in this climate...still..things are changing...nothing is certain anymore.