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[deleted] t1_ja1cry1 wrote

There is only six varieties of corn?

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Jack_Off_All_Aids t1_ja1m5rb wrote

No. Variety here is meaning more like '6 general phenotypes' and I'm not interested enough to read what they're referring to. Corn differs in seed coat makeup and endosperm makeup- endosperm being the store carbs that the seed will digest and is for growth

It's really all 1 'variety' and separating them is kind of arbitrary-

Glass gem corn, the really pretty stuff, is a flour corn that will also pop - arbitrary

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bucket_overlord t1_jaaycbf wrote

Yeah with hundreds of different strains of corn, I’d venture to guess that the 6 “varieties” of corn mentioned are similar to how there is basically 2 types of Cannabis: Sativa and Indica. However there are hundreds or thousands of strains of weed, and many of them are hybrids which blur the line between the two “types”.

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