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Help identifying seeds

quetzali_cantuquetzali_cantu Posts: 4
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Hi! Can someone help me to identify these seeds please?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2019
    Not without a bit of a clue of the possibilities of what they might be ... there are more than 400,000 types of plant on the planet. 
     :) 
    We would also need something to give a sense of their size. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    @quetzali_cantu , welcome to the forum - as Dove says, we could do with some more info please !
    The first 2 look very similar.  
  • quetzali_cantuquetzali_cantu Posts: 4
    They are all supposedly from the same plant, I didn't collect them or know where they came from, I'm a biotech student and a professor gave us these seeds. We are supposed to grow them and harvest seeds by the end of the semester and we are allowed to ask anyone for help and to use whatever techniques we want.

    As for the size, they are about 5 mms in lenght, the surface is hard and smooth, similar to a bean. Here's another picture with better light:

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Whereabouts are you, @quetzali_cantu?  They don't look like anything I've seen in Britain...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    It must be something that grows and matures quickly if it's expected to germinate, grow into a mature plant, flower and set seed in a semester, so maybe we can narrow it down to annuals?
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • quetzali_cantuquetzali_cantu Posts: 4
    Someone in reddit said it might be Zea diploperennis, it sure looks like it!

    I'm from Mexico, and this professor does work with corn :smile:
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Looks like it :) .  Google tells me it's a tropical plant, so not something that us UK folk are likely to have come across or grown.  The seeds of the sweetcorn that we can grow here in the UK doesn't look much like that.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • quetzali_cantuquetzali_cantu Posts: 4
    Well, it's a type of wild corn, I have never seen them before either, lol
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Have a look at Zea Mexicana - looks another possibility
    Zea diploprennis is on the endangered species list and is quite rare according to Wiki etc.

    Some questions on this forum take us on interesting journeys with a little help from google :)

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