A very tall and late landrace from Colombia that reaches 10-12 feet tall or even more. Many tillers as well. Produces at least 2 ears per stalk that are 4-5 inches long bearing white, yellow, red-pink, and related shades of colors on flinty, almost popcorn like kernels. This landrace hails from coastal Colombia and parts of Ecuador, where it is believed to have originated from a hybrid of corn and another postulated corn ancestor, Tripsacum, a wild grass. Chococeño is grown on the western coastal plain in an area subjected to extremely high rainfall, usually 400 inches annually. It is also very unique in the way it is grown, very primitively so. It's grown without any cultivation. The fields are prepared simply by cutting down all the small trees and brush, broadcasting the seeds by hand with no cover, and allowing them to germinate on the soil surface. The plants then grow up through the branches of cut vegetation. This landrace has thus evolved under virtually aquatic, primitive cond
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