{"id":4585,"date":"2025-10-08T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:50:25","slug":"glass-gem-corn-poaceae-zea-mays-ornamental-indiana-maize-cultivated-annual-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/2025\/10\/08\/glass-gem-corn-poaceae-zea-mays-ornamental-indiana-maize-cultivated-annual-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass Gem Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/about-david-allio\/brief\/biography\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Glass Gem Corn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/photography\/2025\/poaceae-zea-mays\/glass-gem-corn_02-096.jpg\" \nalt=\"Glass Gem Corn visual art collection by David Allio\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"\/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Glass Gem Corn<\/em><small> &#8211; Visual Art Collection<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<p><cite>Poaceae Zea mays<\/cite> is the botanical family, genus, and species name for <cite>Glass Gem Corn<\/cite>. Poaceae <cite>Gramineae<\/cite>, commonly known as the grass family, evolved <cite>Zea mays<\/cite> from a cultivated annual grass originating in Mexico.  By the time Carl Barnes found the volunteer maize in his Oklahoma field, this grass had developed into stalk-like plants with a variety of unique seeds.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%\/><small>camera: <b>Nikon D850<\/b> | lens: <b>AF-S Nikkor VR 105mm f\/2.8G IF-ED<\/b><br \/>\nfocal length: 105mm | exposure: f\/18 &#8211; 1\/250th second &#8211; ISO 1000<\/small><\/center><center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%\/><\/center><small><cite>credit: NPR.org\/All Things Considered, 2019 Nov 25<br \/>\nnote: the USDA Plants database was offline during the research for this text<\/cite><\/small><br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glass Gem corn [Poaceae Zea mays] ornamental Indiana maize cultivated annual grass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1234,1238,1232,1233],"tags":[386,1237,1241],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glass-gem","category-non-gmo","category-poaceae-gramineae-grass-family","category-zea-mays","tag-nikon-usa","tag-non-gmo","tag-plants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p21yji-1bX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4587,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}