A medium to tall stalked landrace popcorn that is restricted to the Departments of Boyaca and Cundinamarca. Being the most primitive maize in Colombia, it has one of most limited distributions of any Colombian race as well as smaller plants and ears making it a relict race. Pollo could be a derivative  of Confite Morocho from Peru, since it resembles that race in general characteristics. It's also possible Pollo is a domesticated form of a wild maize which grew in Colombia, which is most accepted and plausible. Collections of Pollo grown at the site of Medellin segregate plants that resemble Mexican teosinte almost identically. They are often mistake for teosinte and can bear up to 15 small ears. This primitive popcorn resembles the Nal-Tel of Mexico but Nal-Tel lacks the tillers and smaller ears that Polo has. Both have red and orange as well as other kernel colors.