. Elements of Philippine agriculture. Agriculture. MAIZE 91 The most y' maize, flint maize, sugar maize, and popeorn important group is starch maize. General Description. Maize is a great grass, whose height varies in different varieties from 60 cm to 6 meters. Ex- cept in the Chinese "tree corn," which is a variety of liusk maize, tlie stem is unl)ranched, or, rarely, is branclied near tlie l^ase. The leaves are alternate, in two rows. They are usually rough on the upper surface, but smooth be- low. In size they are 30 to 120 cm long, and 5 to 12 cm broad. Two Kinds of Inflorescence
. Elements of Philippine agriculture. Agriculture. MAIZE 91 The most y' maize, flint maize, sugar maize, and popeorn important group is starch maize. General Description. Maize is a great grass, whose height varies in different varieties from 60 cm to 6 meters. Ex- cept in the Chinese "tree corn," which is a variety of liusk maize, tlie stem is unl)ranched, or, rarely, is branclied near tlie l^ase. The leaves are alternate, in two rows. They are usually rough on the upper surface, but smooth be- low. In size they are 30 to 120 cm long, and 5 to 12 cm broad. Two Kinds of Inflorescences. I^xam- ine carefully the picture of the stalk of maize, and you will notice that it has two different clusters of flowers. Clusters of flowers such as these are called inflorescences. One cluster or inflorescence grows from the top of the stalk and forms the tassel. Since all these flowers have only stamens and no pistils, this cluster is called the staminate inflorescence. The flowers having the pistils grow in clusters along the side of the stalk in the axils of the leaves. These clusters are called the pistillate inflorescences. A stalk may have from one to three pistillate inflorescences. Each pistillate inflorescence is a stout stem, or axis,. ;. 70. Stalk of maize showing the staminate inflorescence at the top and three pistillate inflo- rescences in the leaf axils. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Copeland, Edwin Bingham, 1873- [from old catalog]. Yonkers-on-Hudson, N. Y. , and Manila, World book company
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