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| Rainbow |
Can you believe that the above photo is corn - edible corn!
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Lavender tones
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Its called Glass Gem corn and really does look like glass beads. I'd love to make some jewelry out of them!
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| Bubble gum |
It's a multi-colored heirloom corn with its origin traced back to Carl Barnes, a farmer living in Oklahoma. He excelled at selecting and saving seed from corn cobs that exhibited vivid translucent colors - and Glass Gem was born! No GMO's here! Just years of carefully selecting the best colored corn seeds.
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| Glassy emerald |
It is now protected by
Native Seeds - and can be purchased from them. It is a corn designed for corn flour and popping corn - not a sweet corn to be eaten off the cob. However, it is used, understandably, as an ornamental variety!
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| Rainbow and blue |
Just look at these beautiful colors. I would hate to grind it up into a flour! It's much to beautiful to eat.
Which is your favorite color? Would you cook with it? I wonder if you could dry the kernels and make earrings?
Photos by
Greg Schoen - a student of Carl Barnes
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