the northern tepehuan teosinte in the garden ( top two photos ) is flowering away and that is cool because i can collect pollen to cross pollinate with the flowering plants at home( there are four out there now ) i am hoping forseed ears this season but the fall is turning cool so frost may have the last word on ears...the single perennial teosinte plant ( third photo ) out there is tillering again as the photo period shortens...as the tillers grow longer they tend to lay out across the ground and so they develop support roots ( bottom photo ) to keep the stalks off the soil and out of any collecting water...the aforementioned frost may negate the need for the roots...but the plant does not know that.
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