Mexican Teosinte

Armando Maravilla presents plant species for the Conservation of wild vegetation.

HABITAT

It is found in cultivated land and as a ruderal along roadsides, abandoned land, and disturbed places. This subspecies also thrives in pine-oak forests.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Represent an important source of genes for improvement in maize, in aspects of nutritional quality, resistance to diseases, adaptation to drought or flood conditions, agronomic quality, etc.