Last saturday the weather was beautiful with warm sunshine and blue
sky. During a walk in the fields of Fellbach (called Schmidener Feld)
I found this corn cob in the grass beside a field of maize. The fall
colors had wonderful golden tones and sparkled in the sun. The harvest
haven't started. I love corn as vegetable, in a salad and also pop
corn.
Maize also known in some countries as corn, is a herbaceous plant
domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the
American continents. After European contact with the Americas in the
late 15th and early 16th centuries, maize spread to the rest of the
world.
Maize is the most widely grown crop in the Americas (332 million
metric tons annually in the United States alone). Hybrid maize,
because of its high grain yield as a result of heterosis, is preferred
by farmers over conventional varieties. While some maize varieties
grow up to 7 metres (23 ft) tall, most commercially grown maize has
been bred for a standardized height of 2.5 metres (8 ft). Sweet corn
is usually shorter than field-corn varieties.
If you like to read more about maize / corn, there is a long article
in en.Wikipedia
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Mais ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Familie der Süßgräser , die ursprünglich
aus Mexiko stammt.
Weltwirtschaftlich bedeutend ist die kultivierte Unterart Zea mays ,
die als wichtige Getreideart weltweit angebaut wird. Es gibt ca.
50.000 verschiedene Maissorten.
Mais wird als Nutzpflanze vor allem zur Ernährung des Menschen (direkt
oder über Produkte der Maisstärke) und als Futterpflanze angebaut.
Darüber hinaus hat die Pflanze eine große Bedeutung als Energiepflanze
zur Herstellung von Biokraftstoffen (Bioethanol, vor allem in
Nordamerika) und als Energiemais zur Herstellung von Maissilage als
Biogassubstrat. In der stofflichen Nutzung spielt Maisstärke als
Ausgangsprodukt für Biokunststoffe, als Fermentationsrohstoff und für
andere Stärkenutzungen eine Rolle. Mais enthält weniger für den
Menschen nutzbares Eiweiß als die meisten anderen Getreide.
Wer mehr über den Mais erfahren möchte, in Wikipedia gibt es einen sehr langen und ausführlichen Artikel.
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Mariinna 44 months ago | reply
Corn, I love corn!!!:)
Birdman of El Paso 42 months ago | reply
Wowsers! That looks good enough to eat.
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thorvaala 29 months ago | reply
My state, Iowa, is known as the tall corn state.
E.L.A 29 months ago | reply
what an interesting close up.it seems out of the monitor :)
c0gnate 26 months ago | reply
Very beautifully captured!
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walter78 19 months ago | reply
Uschi es tut mir leid mit Deinen
Händen .es ist so in Ordnung .w
Ricardo F. M. 16 months ago | reply
Muito bem captada este espiga de milho :))), excelentes cores!!! Parabéns.
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