Zea mays

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: monocots • Cladus: commelinids • Ordo: Poales • Familia: Poaceae • Cladus: PACMAD clade • Subfamilia: Panicoideae • Tribus: Andropogoneae • Genus: Zea • Species: Zea mays

Català: Dacsa, (Zae mays L.), blat de moro o blat de les índies, és un cereal que es va començar a conrear en Mesoamerica i a partir d'ací a la resta del món.

Deutsch: Mais, in Österreich auch Kukuruz, ist ein Getreide, das in Mittelamerika domestiziert wurde und heute weltweit verbreitet ist.

English: Maize (Zea mays L. ssp. mays) or corn is a cereal grain domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the rest of the world.

Español: Maíz (Zea mays) es un cereal domesticado en Mesoamérica cuyo cultivo se difundió a todo el mundo a partir del siglo XVI.

Familia: Poaceae
Species: Zea mays L.

Inflorescences[edit]

male flowers
female inflorescence

Fruit[edit]

See also: Category:Maize | Category:Corncobs

Dried Maize in Carinthia / EU
Corncobs, USA
Maize plant
From Teosinte to corn
Corncobs, Italy
Flint corn (different coloured)
Peruvian corn
Ornamental maize
Zea mays "fraise" - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'glass gem' - Museum specimen
'Oaxacan Green' - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'lourdious' - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'vacquiers' - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'St Lieux les Lavaur' - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'morado' - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'Ohcholi Sunul' - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'millette du Lauragais' - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'tohono O'odham' - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'indian corn' - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'etsaut' - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'Ottofile giallo Tortonese' - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'arc en ciel inca' - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'Lacaune' - Museum specimen
Zea mays 'Strawberry' - Museum specimen

Illustration[edit]

Icon corn cob
Histoire naturelle, Turin, 1836.
Thomé, Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885.
Flora de Filipinas, ~ 1880.
Icones Plantarum medicinalium..., Wien, 1788-1812.
From Herball of John Gerard, 1633.
Coat of arms with Maize (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France).

Cultivation[edit]

See also: Cornfields

young stalk of corn
A row of corn stalks
A field of young corn stalks
Cornfield in Liechtenstein
Cornfield in South Africa
Inside a cornfield
Withered corn field, Wisconsin
Harvested corn field
habitus of full-grown corn stalks
Intercropping with other plant species

Details[edit]

Zellstructure
Microscopical view of a cross section of a vascular bundle. Viewed under polarisated light. Magnification 312,5x.
Maize -Milho - Corn 1986
Maize Grains
Maize for popcorn
Maize with an active Mutator transposon
(nl: suikermais) flowering cob of convar. saccharata
Anteroj de virfloro
Sweet corn flowers
Ancient maize
Indian Corn
Maíz rojo de Grazalema
young popcorn stalks, left plant has chlorosis
Differences mutations maintained at the Maize Genetics
Leaf