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[RandySF]

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[liberalla]

1. That corn is so beautiful!

I've never seen anything like it! Wow!

[dweller]

2. Imagine the

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[Silent3]

3. The question is, what does it taste like?

It's very pretty, but is it as good to eat as the sweet corn you find at a typical American farm stand or grocery store?

It looks like it should taste like Skittles

[niyad]

7. See post 6.

[Major Nikon]

14. It's going to be significantly different than sweet corn

Most or all of it would have been processed in various ways prior to consumption such as making hominy or corn meal.

[central scrutinizer]

16. Corn needs to be nixtamalized to be digestible

Soaking in a highly alkaline solution to make hominy or ground into masa for tortillas or tamales. You can buy calcium hydroxide (cal) at many Mexican markets.

[orleans]

4. i love this! it's so beautiful nt

[2naSalit]

5. Best looking corn I've seen in some time.

Beautiful color!

[niyad]

6. This is a flint or popcorn, can also be ground into meal.

Carl "White Eagle" Barnes rescued this, as he has many Indigenous strains.

I remember seeing this corn in the Baker Creek Whole Seed catalogue, so went back to verify. It is available.

[MontanaMama]

8. Rainbow corn?

That’s pride corn if you ask me…

This made me freaking night.

[littlemissmartypants]

10. Same. ❤️

[RestoreAmerica2020]

9. Just beautiful selu...truly nature's work of art; pallette of the colors of light..as

..seen in a rainbow, a drop of dew--a visible spectrum of light.

A couple of years ago (pre pandemic) back a friend from a neighboring pueblo gave me a handful of Anasazi beans [ Anasazi is the Navajo word for “the ancient ones,” cliff-dwelling Native Americans who lived in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona around 130 AD.] A speckled burgundy and white bean/ seed..didn't have luck growing though..must have done something wrong when planting. Just a treasure to have been given them to grow..and interesting know that ancient seeds can be rescued, and still used today.

[Bayard]

11. Psychedelic corn!

Wonder if it holds the color when its cooked?

[wnylib]

12. Too beautiful to eat.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Yo, that's for smokin'.

[ShazzieB]

15. The name "glassgem corn" is perfect.

It really does look like glass. It has the same sheen and translucency.

My husband collects colored glassware. You could lay an ear of this corn on the shelf with some of his pieces, and it would look like part of the collection!