What kind of corn is this

Question

We have a corn plant coming up under our feeder. It must have come from the corn that we used to feed to the squirrels. Does anyone know what type it is? It looks different from the regular field corn in my area.

Here are some pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23825854@N08/

The corn hasn't started developing, so I don't know what it will look like. Could it be a hybrid of some kind?

Answer 1

john h is, once again, right.  

Answer 2

yummy corn

Answer 3

it looks like broom corn.  That's a wild corn, from eons ago.

All corn (the stuff that's used for cattle feed and corn syrup, the sweet corn you eat for dinner, and popcorn) is all descendant from the "wild" corn developed by the American Indians millenia ago.  The recessive traits are still deep in the genetics, and sometimes they come out.

Answer 4

It is not corn, it's grain sorghum. The small round grains, they can be either brown or yellow, that usually dominate bird seed mixtures.

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ecoph12.ht...