{"id":4590,"date":"2025-10-15T10:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:14:12","slug":"glass-gem-corn-poaceae-zea-mays-ornamental-maize-cultivated-by-carl-barnes-greg-schoen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/2025\/10\/15\/glass-gem-corn-poaceae-zea-mays-ornamental-maize-cultivated-by-carl-barnes-greg-schoen\/","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_03-003.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>\n<cite>Poaceae Zea mays<\/cite> is the botanical family, genus, and species name for <cite>Glass Gem Corn<\/cite>. Cherokee Carl Barnes bred the first three varieties &#8211; Osage Red Flour Corn, dark red; Osage Greyhorse Corn, colors vary from dark gray to white; and Pawnee Miniature Popcorn; red, to develop the original seeds for what became Glass Gem Corn.  Later, with the encouragement and seed collection of Barnes, Greg Schoen added an heirloom type Pueblo Corn which provided different colors including yellow, white, blue, and red.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%\/>\n<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\/11 &#8211; 1\/400th 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 maize cultivated by Carl Barnes and Greg Schoen<\/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":[773,891,386,1237],"class_list":["post-4590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glass-gem","category-non-gmo","category-poaceae-gramineae-grass-family","category-zea-mays","tag-butterfly-photography","tag-in-indiana","tag-nikon-usa","tag-non-gmo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p21yji-1c2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590","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=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4594,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions\/4594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}