1, corn, formerly known as: corn, alias: Luo Gu - stick, bao Gu, Yu Zizania, bracts, pearl rice, bracts reed, big reed corn, Chaoshan: young Meiren, English name: corn, Latin name: Zea mays L. Gramineae, corn genus annual tall herb. Culms erect, usually unbranched, basal nodes with aerial strutting roots.
2. Leaf sheaths with transverse veins; ligules membranous, ca. 0.2 m; leaf blades flattened and broad, linear-lanceolate, base rounded auriculate, glabrous or blemish-pilose, midvein stout, margins scabrid ca. 1-1.5 m long. The caryopsis is spherical or oblate, showing beyond the glumes and lemmas at maturity, and its size varies with growing conditions, and it is cultivated throughout China.
3. It is widely cultivated in tropical and temperate regions all over the world, and is an important cereal. Sweet flavor, can do all kinds of dishes, such as corn brand.