@mrsouthernsmith: Corn (maize) was domesticated about 10,000 years ago in Mexico from the pictured tiny ear of a wild grass called teosinte. It’s transformation through human selection has yielded vast diversity! Yes, my speech therapy and accent doesn’t do well with Oaxaca, please be kind. #garden #PlantTok #plants #History #seed
I grow teosinte too! I got it from a Native seed company!
2025-10-26 04:22:56
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Eric :
Native Americans don’t get enough credit for the millennia of work put into their crop plants. Billions of people eat food crops developed by native Americans daily
2025-10-26 04:42:41
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Stephen :
My apologies everyone-wah-hah-kah.
2025-10-26 05:23:03
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Scarlettdaisy :
That looks just like a rattlesnake rattle.
2025-10-26 06:59:03
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zuni.edgewater.tabaaha :
Some home grown corn that we planted in northern Arizona by the Diné/Navajo. The corn we plant has been passed down from the ladies in our family. From our ancestral grandmothers to us. 🥰
2025-10-27 08:46:35
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ChristianG :
If anyone ever gets a chance, please visit Oaxaca respectfully! The agriculture from my homeland is beyond beautiful to the point that our landscape inspired a lot of the scenery in the movie Avatar
2025-10-26 17:16:10
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🔻Kekero (level 13 Wizard)🔻 :
The Industrial Revolution would’ve never happened without the excess calories gained from corn and potatoes. Which have an insane yield where the only comparable old world crop was rice. But Corn and Potatoes were far more sturdy.
2025-10-26 18:54:36
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paatunghoya :
have you heard about how we cultivated corn on Hopi to endure dry farming?
2025-10-26 04:02:23
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peculiar particals ⛈️ :
I've had tortillas made from Cacahuazintle maiz in Guatemala, it was so delicious!
2025-10-26 04:18:19
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__pulchraa :
Omg. At first glance it looks like a rattler from a rattlesnake.
2025-10-25 18:44:59
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professor.mulberry :
so cool! I remember being in elementary school and they taught us that corn used to be a few kernels on the end of a blade of grass. This makes so much more sense
2025-10-25 18:41:44
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Plantologist :
Dang. As a wild grass/grain that teosinte infructescence is actually sort of massive! Easy to see why ancestral farmers picked it for cultivation!
2025-10-26 19:54:42
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only1kristyna :
Think I got on the wrong train but it seems to be nice here. Think I'll stick around and learn something.
2025-10-26 03:37:50
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Slowpoke🐌SolarPunk🌞Farm🍄🟫 :
fyp SMACKS tonight
2025-10-26 02:58:22
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Tylenol30 :
I love corn dude. Probably bc I was born and raised in Iowa but still
2025-10-26 17:31:30
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Nikfromknox :
I thought that was a rattler from a snake at first 😂
2025-10-26 16:52:35
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Reticulated_Splines_ :
The og one really makes it look like wheat...
I wonder if we worked it... could we be eating wheat on the cob one day
2025-11-03 21:03:30
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Bethany :
Impressed how closely rattle snake rattles resemble teosinte.
2025-10-26 13:50:22
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Mess :
I'm so grateful this came across my algorithm
2025-10-26 03:33:57
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Stormey Lawless :
Resembles a rattle snake tail
2025-10-26 05:19:52
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josh :
That’s super cool! Do you know about Sierra Mixe corn? It is a variety from Oaxaca Mexico and it’s a naturally nitrogen fixing corn that produces slime that acts as a matrix for nitrogen fixing bacteria.
2025-10-27 00:22:31
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redballoon753 :
The ancient agricultural technicians did real art with their foods, corn, potatoes, pumpkins, tomatoes!🥰🥰
2025-10-26 23:00:11
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BHUNGUS GHUMBUS :
In Otomi we call maize: ‘tehthã
2025-10-26 19:42:35
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✨Starlightshadow✨ :
That’s those little corns in my Chinese food.
2025-10-26 04:07:14
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