Zea Mays,Sweet Corn,the uses and benefit of corn.maize...

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Corn Botanical Description.

Sweet corn Extract INCI Name Zea Mays Extract CAS 84696-06-0 photo picture image Corn is an icon of American culture. Not only does it represent our native American traditions, serve as a symbol of both summertime BBQ fun and a night out at the movies, but corn, in the form of corn syrup, is also an added ingredient in many other foods that we consume in our daily diets.

 Although we often associate corn with the color yellow, this vegetable actually comes in host of different varieties that range in colors:one variety of corn is red, pink, black and blue. Corn grows in "ears", each of which is covered in rows of kernels that are then protected first by the silk-like threads called "corn silk," and finally, encased in a husk.

 Corn is known scientifically as Zea mays. This moniker reflect its traditional name, maize, by which it is known throughout many areas of the world.
 Sweet corn Extract INCI Name Zea Mays Extract CAS 84696-06-0 photo picture image

 A monoecious plant. Male flowers in terminal racemes; spikelets, two-flowered glumes nearly equal, herbaceous, terminating in two sharp points; females, axillary in the sheaths of the leaves. The spikes or ears proceed from the stalls at various distances from the ground, and are closely enveloped in several thin leaves, forming a sheath called the husk; the ears consist of a cylindrical substance, a pith called the cob; on this the seeds are ranged in eight rows, each row having thirty or more seeds. From the eyes or germs of the seeds proceed individual filaments of a silky appearance and bright green colour; these hang from the point of the husk and are called 'the silk.' The use of these filaments or stigmata is to receive the farina which drops from the flowers, and without which the flowers would produce no seed. As soon as this has been effected, the tops and 'the silk' dry up. The maize grains are of varying colour - usually yellow, but often ranging to black.

 Corn is so easily recognizable by most people that it doesn't beg for much of a description. The corn plant has a pithy nodded stalk supported by prop roots. The staminate (male) flowers form the tassel at the top of the plant. The pistillate (female) flowers are the kernels on the cob, which is enclosed by a leafy husk. Beyond this extend threadlike styles and stigmas or corn silk which catch the pollen. The entire plant with its ornamental tassel and ears has been a motif of American art since colonial times.

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