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