{"id":4595,"date":"2025-10-22T10:22:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:30:28","slug":"glass-gem-corn-poaceae-zea-mays-ornamental-maize-cultivated-shared-seed-exchange-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/2025\/10\/22\/glass-gem-corn-poaceae-zea-mays-ornamental-maize-cultivated-shared-seed-exchange-pool\/","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_04-047.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>Glass Gem<\/cite> is disseminated by growers sharing seeds.  This allows for the expansion of the regions where rare maize may be cultivated and increases the total seed pool available for future crops.<\/p>\n<p>Seed Savers Exchange is a single example of a <cite>seed swap<\/cite> where gardeners contribute thousands of heirloom and open-pollinated seeds, those not commercially grown.  Most of these seed swap operations handle rare or unique seeds, available free or for a small fee. Otherwise, seeds such as <cite>Glass Gem<\/cite> maize are shared amongst growers for a greater distribution of legacy and endangered resources.<\/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\/18 &#8211; 1\/160th 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 shared seed exchange pool<\/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-4595","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-1c7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595","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=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}