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The oldest type of sweet corn contains more sugar and less starch than field corn intended for livestock. Tends to be heartier in respect to planting depth, germination and growth than other types. Begins conversion of sugar to starch after peak maturity or harvest, and as such is best eaten immediately after harvest.
Acacia, Spirale. Acacia raddiana. Exodus 25:10. אלמגים ’almuggîm. Almug tree; traditionally thought to denominate Red Sandalwood and/or. White Sandalwood, but a few claim it is Juniper. Pterocarpus santalinus. Santalum album. Juniperus excelsa.
cupid corn, bunny corn, harvest corn, reindeer corn. Media: Candy corn. Candy corn is a small, pyramid-shaped candy, typically divided into three sections of different colors, with a waxy texture and a flavor based on honey, sugar, butter, and vanilla. [1] [2] It is a staple candy of the fall season and Halloween in North America.
Glass Gem corn, a unique variety of rainbow-colored corn, became an Internet sensation in 2012 when a photo of the sparkling cob was posted to Facebook. This multi-colored corn is real and there's ...
Detasseling. The tassel of a corn plant. Detasseling corn is removing the pollen -producing flowers, the tassel, from the tops of corn (maize) plants and placing them on the ground. It is a form of pollination control, [1] employed to cross-breed, or hybridize, two varieties of corn. Fields of corn that will be detasseled are planted with two ...
The Gathering of the Manna by James Tissot. Manna (Hebrew: מָן, romanized: mān, Greek: μάννα; Arabic: اَلْمَنُّ; sometimes or archaically spelled mana), according to the Bible and the Quran, is an edible substance which God provided for the Israelites during their travels in the desert during the 40-year period following the Exodus and prior to the conquest of Canaan.
Corn dolly. Corn dollies or corn mothers are a form of straw work made as part of harvest customs of Europe before mechanisation. Before Christianisation, in traditional pagan European culture it was believed that the spirit of the corn (in American English, "corn" would be "grain") lived amongst the crop, and that the harvest made it ...
Corn smut is a plant disease caused by the pathogenic fungus Mycosarcoma maydis. One of several cereal crop pathogens called smut, the fungus forms galls on all above-ground parts of corn species such as maize and teosinte. The infected corn is edible; in Mexico, it is considered a delicacy, called huitlacoche, [5] often eaten as a filling in ...