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a little bit of the morphology of a "wild and weedy ancestor" and its domesticated offspring...

dense yellow #2 in the field by the supermarket...

and northern tepehuan treosinte in my yard...

and again in the same order..

and again...

and one last time...

corn flowers ( tassels...i am corrected time and again...however it is a male flower )

and one from the teosinte...the family resemblance is strong in many ways...the way the ears emerge from the stalks is very close to the same...however since teoasinte has no cobs it can have multiple ears emerge from the same node as in the eighth photo...there are several examples of multiple ears on the plants...nothing uncommon about it...one thing is sure...teosinte has much more interesting support roots...