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What is the name of this vegetable

Corn (Latin name: Zea mays?L.) is an annual herbaceous plant of the genus corn in the family Gramineae. Alias: yu shu, stick, bao gui, bao rice, bao corn, yu zizania, bao rice, pearl rice, bao lu, big lu corn, northeastern liaoning dialect called pearl grain, chaozhou dialect called barley kernel, cantonese known as corn, minnan language known as fen mai.

Culms erect, usually unbranched, basal nodes with aerial strutting roots. Leaf sheaths with transverse veins; ligule membranous, leaf blades flattened and broad, linear-lanceolate, base rounded auriculate, glabrous or blemish-pilose, midvein stout. Caryopsis globose or oblate, exposed beyond glumes and lemmas at maturity, its size varying with growing conditions. Monoecious and dioecious, flowering and fruiting in fall. [1]?

Corn cultivation in China has a history of about 470 years. At present, China's sown area of about 300 million mu, second only to rice, wheat, in the food crops in the third place in the world, second only to the United States. The world's tropical and temperate regions are widely planted, as an important cereal.

Corn taste sweet, can do all kinds of dishes, such as corn brand, corn juice, it is also the main raw material for industrial alcohol and soju. [2]?

Chinese name

Corn

Latin name

Zea mays L.

Alias

Bao gui, bao lu, yu zizania, bracteate, stick, corn, yu shu, yu zizania, yu mai, rutabaga corn

Boundary

Botany

Phylum

Engraeced plants Phylum

Subphylum

Subphylum of angiosperms

Organism

Monocotyledon

Organism

Gramineae

Family

Gramineae

Subfamily

Millet subfamily Panicoideae

Group

Tribe

Trib. Maydeae

Genus

Millet genus Zea

Species

Maize

Region of distribution

Mostly north of the Yellow River in China

Name in English

corn

Charity

Features

World distribution area

Tropical and temperate regions of the world