Arisa Lohmeier, from Erika Edwards' (brown.edu/Research/Edwards_Lab/index.php) Plant Diversity course at Brown University (Biol 0430), describes our co-dependent relationship with corn.
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Summary[edit] Description: Français : Zea diploperennis, Conservatoire botanique national de Brest. Date: 9 July 2015, 16:17:06. Source: Own work. Author: El Funcionario.
Summary[edit] Description: Deutsch: Blick auf ein Maisfeld (Zea mays); gut erkennbar sind die männlichen Blütenstände. Date: 7 July 2009. Source: Own work. Author: 3268zauber.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Batar hanesan produtu ne'ebe maka koinesidu iha territoriu timor. Date: 1 October 2018. Source: Own work. Author: Juvencia Irene Da Costa.
Summary[edit] Description: Français : Zea diploperennis, Conservatoire botanique national de Brest. Date: 9 July 2015, 16:16:32. Source: Own work. Author: El Funcionario.
2010-11-01 Burgenland, district Neusiedl/See (Leitha terraces, ~160 m AMSL).Field of ripe maize = corn = Austrian German Kukuruz = German Mais.It is planted in Austrian lowlands for corn, in higher lying regions (say, 400+ metres) however also as green fodder.
Description: The diploid perennial teosinte produces pistillate spikelets both in the axils of leaves along the main stem and at the ends of the main branches where staminate spikelets terminate the spike. Date: 29 October 2009, 11:36. Source: Zea diploperennis. Author: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA. Camera location45° 40′ 07.31″ N, 111° 03′ 10.69″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 45.668697; -111.052970.
2011-10-08 Lower Austria, district Hollabrunn - Jetzelsdorf (field 220 msm, hill 270 msm; Quadrant 7262/3).A field of maize/corn, with a vineyard in the background: one typical landscape scenery of so-called Austrian Weinviertel ('wine district', for the wine cultivated there).This (that is, the vineyard) is also the habitat of a plant which is very rare here in Austria - Bassia prostrata; the plant as such is common enough in Eastern Europe and Asia but rare in Central Europe - and the Austrian population is the westernmost one.For Bassia prostrata see also photos of the plant linked below.See also the magisterial thesis of Peter Biskup (2008): Untersuchungen zur Biologie und kologie der stark gefhrdeten Halbstrauch-Radmelde (Bassia prostrata) in sterreich als Beitrag zur Entwicklung von Schutzmassnahmen, Universitt Wien
Summary[edit] Description: Zea diploperennis, Conservatoire botanique national de Brest, France, Juin 2007. Date: 20 June 2007. Source: Own work. Author: Jeffdelonge.