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An individual corn cob, dried and mature, reveals its orange-yellow kernels and brown husks in a vast field under a cloudy sky. Royalty Free Stock Photo

An individual corn cob, dried and mature, reveals its orange-yellow kernels and brown husks in a vast field under a cloudy sky. Maize, also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native Americans planted it alongside beans and squashes in the Three Sisters polyculture. The leafy stalk of the plant gives rise to male inflorescences or tassels which produce pollen, and female inflorescences called ears. The ears yield grain, known as kernels or seeds.