Popcorn special corn, or popping corn, and ordinary corn with different appearance and size, different sources, different types of corn.

Difference:

One, the appearance of different sizes

1, popping corn

Popping corn cob and kernels are smaller than ordinary corn, compact structure, hard and transparent, high temperature has a greater expansion of explosive, even if the seeds are smashed into pieces will not lose the power of the expansion. Popping corn is thus named. Kernels are mostly yellow or white, but also red, blue, brown, and even spotted color.

2. Common maize

Culms erect, usually unbranched, 1-4 m tall, basal nodes with aerial strut roots. Leaf sheaths with transverse veins; ligule membranous, ca. 2 mm; leaf blades flattened and broad, linear-lanceolate, base rounded auriculate, glabrous or blemish-pilose, midrib robust, margins scabrid. Terminal male panicle large, main axis and raceme axis and its axils finely pilose.

Two, different sources

1, popping corn

2, ordinary corn

Maize is native to Central and South America. Now all over the world are cultivated. Mainly distributed between 30 ° - 50 ° latitude. The most cultivated area is the United States, China, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, India and Romania. China's main corn producing areas are the northeast, north China and southwest mountainous areas.

Three, different types of corn

Bursting corn originated in the Americas, Mexico, Peru, Chile, along the foothills of the Andes in the vast area. At least 80,000 years ago has been cultivated. Archaeologists believe that before the European colonizers entered the American continent, popping corn and other corn from Mexico to the east to the north spread. On burial pottery left by Indians in 300 A.D. dug up in Peru Pi.

1, popping corn

Popping corn is a type of corn used to pop corn flowers. Popping corn breeding originated in the United States, the first for factory production of popping corn varieties is called a "Spanish" popping corn, the first for commercial production of popping corn hybrids is in 1934, Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station issued called "" Minhybrid250 ". Minhybrid 250", the first commercially produced popcorn hybrid was a sister-cross monoculture released by the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station in 1934.

2, common corn

Corn (Latin name: Zea mays? L.) is an annual herbaceous plant of the genus corn, 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.

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