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[RandySF]

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[hlthe2b]

1. Wow... So pretty. Whether or not it tastes good, it would be fun to grow.

[lisa58]

2. Jelly beans!!!!

[LAS14]

3. Neato keeno!!!! nt

[FoxNewsSucks]

4. I'd like to slap whoever it was

that decided yellow was the Official Corn Color of the United States.

[blueinredohio]

5. That is pretty.

Wonder how it tastes.

[mbusby]

9. Last I heard....

...it tastes like corn. Sorry, I couldn't resist. You can get yellow, red and dark purple corn used in corn chips at your local store.

[blueinredohio]

13. Thanks, I would never have thought it tasted like corn. LOL!

[sazemisery]

15. This variety is a flint type corn so...

you would use it as dried corn to grind or as popcorn.

[Hortensis]

23. :) And in the 21st century, holiday decoration. It's gorgeous.

[dugog55]

6. When I was a kid in Illinois back in the 60's, we would occasionally find a stalk of

corn growing in fields. It was always multi-colored, certainly not as pretty as this corn is though. We always called it "Indian Corn". No idea why we called it that, just something passed down from the older kids I guess. Little did we know it was probably left over from the Native Americans. Strange that we would have been so accurate as to where it came from.

[Beartracks]

18. My mom had ears of dried Indian corn for her autumn decorations when I was growing up.

They were mainly mixed purple/maroon and blue, I think. She displayed them in a basket, or mixed in with gourds and other foods spilling out of a cornucopia. My understanding was that's just what corn grown by Indians looked like, before the Pilgrims. I never really thought about how it all got homogenized as yellow after that -- probably because as a kid I didn't know the word "homogenized."

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[Rebl2]

7. Looks like beautifully

colored glass! How pretty!

[sillywabbit]

8. You can get the seeds at Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (rareseeds.com)

https://www.rareseeds.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=glass+gem+corn

[calimary]

14. Thanks for the link, sillywabbit!

I didn’t know about it.

[niyad]

17. I LOVE the Baker Creek catalogue.

[calimary]

10. I would not eat that.

I’d attach a loop at the stem end, and then feed it onto a neck chain!

This looks beautiful enough to WEAR!

Just GORGEOUS!!! Want!!!

[Beartracks]

19. Or the Biggest Earrings Ever.

[wendyb-NC]

11. Wow, that is beautiful

It looks like a work of art.

[IronLionZion]

12. Time for more diverse crops again

same with carrots. The Dutch decided carrots have to be orange when there are plenty of other types.

Bring back pawpaws next. Those things look delicious.

[dchill]

16. Well I NEVER!

[niyad]

20. That is so pretty. Around here, we get the dark rad corn. Makes very pretty decorations,

and the local critters love it.

[malaise]

21. Beautiful

How does it taste?