Unusual Types of Corn
Corn appears in an amaizing array of diverse plant types. This page offers links to information about blue corn, baby corn, open-pollinated corn, and other unusual types of corn.
Baby Sweet Corn
- Baby Corn (Pub. #PNW0532)
- World Market for Fresh and Canned Baby Corn
- An information bulletion produced produced by the USAID-funded Asia Regional Agribusiness Project. This bulletin provides information about the production, export, markets, grades and standards, and sources of technical information on baby corn.
- Baby Corn Seed Sources:
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- Evergreen Seeds
- Nichols Garden Nursery (Oregon)
- Tropica Seeds (Thailand)
Blue Corn
- Sunny State Products: Blue Corn
- Organic supplier of blue corn from New Mexico.
- Specialty Corns (H-232)
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- Blue Corn Unique to American Southwest
- A news release from New Mexico State University.
- Dryland Blue Corn -- A Tough Row to Hoe
- A news release from New Mexico State University summarizing the research efforts of George Dickerson, a horticulture specialist with NMSU's Cooperative Extension Service, and NMSU Extension agents Kathy Landers and Darrell Rothlisberger. Through the Zuni Sustainable Agricultural Project, the team evaluated four strains of native blue corn under both dryland and irrigated conditions on the Zuni reservation.
- Blue Corn Seed Sources
Miscellaneous
- Specialty Corns (H-232)
Open-Pollinated Corn: Seed Sources
- Abbe Hills Farm
- "Abbe Hills Farm grows an heirloom variety of open pollinated corn for seed, plus oats, hay, and soybeans on about 40 acres of the farm's crop ground. The heirloom corn has been grown on this farm since the first seeds were brought here by Burt Neal in 1903."
- Abundant Life Seed Company
- Saginaw, OR
- Codes for PRIMARY RACE of MAIZE
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
- Hint: This site lists an amazing number of plant germplasm accessions of the primary races of corn that are maintained by USDA and other organizations. Seed is available in small supply for research purposes by ordering from the maintenance site.
- Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
- Mansfield, MO
- Borries Open Pollinated Seed Corn Farm
- 16293 E. 1400th Ave
Teutopolis, IL 62467
Tel: 217 857-3377
- Booming Native Plants
- Frank Kutka
2323 Co. Rd. 6
Barnum, MN 55707-8748
fjkutka@kbjrmail.com
- Harris Seeds
- Rochester, NY
- Heirloom Seeds
- West Elizabeth, PA
- Native Seeds
- "A non-profit organization that seeks to preserve the crop seeds that connect Native American cultures to their land."
- Plants of the Southwest
- Santa Fe, NM
- R.H. Shumway Seedsman
- Graniteville, SC
- Redwood City Seed Co.
- Redwood City, CA
- Skyfire Garden Seeds
- Kanopolis, KS
- Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
- Mineral, VA
- Underwood Gardens
- Woodstock, IL
- Victory Seeds
- Molalla, OR
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