Zea mays

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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.

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

Familia: Poaceae
Species: Zea mays L.

[edit] Fruit

Dried Maize in Carinthia / EU	Corncobs, USA	Maize plant	From Teosinte to corn
Corncobs, Italy	Different coloured	Peruvian corn	Ornamental maize (nl: Aardbeienmaïs)

[edit] Illustration

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).

[edit] Cultivation

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

[edit] Details

Zellstructure	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