Comments on: Baroque painting celebrates agrobiodiversity http://agro.biodiver.se/2009/05/baroque-painting-celebrates-agrobiodiversity/ Crops, animals, wild relatives ... Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:34:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eliseu Bettencourt http://agro.biodiver.se/2009/05/baroque-painting-celebrates-agrobiodiversity/comment-page-1/#comment-756307 Eliseu Bettencourt Mon, 04 May 2009 13:05:20 +0000 http://agro.biodiver.se/?p=6076#comment-756307 It looks, indeed, like maize cobs, and I think they are. Very nice and quite distinct also. The one on the right seems to me more maize than sorghum, but ... Nice the one on the left with reddish seeds dotted with darker ones. I've seen many, also yellow or white and purplish, and that is quite true to life. Interesting the depicted variability of the other cereals which, I guess, are wheat and, seems, rye (at least the one on the right close to that one you think it could be a sorghum head). I think the peduncles are only to give a prominent look to the maize cobs and are the artist's free interpretation of nature. However, I've seen maize cobs with long peduncles, so long that the ears would be pointing downwards, but didn't look that straight, though! It looks, indeed, like maize cobs, and I think they are. Very nice and quite distinct also. The one on the right seems to me more maize than sorghum, but …

Nice the one on the left with reddish seeds dotted with darker ones. I’ve seen many, also yellow or white and purplish, and that is quite true to life.

Interesting the depicted variability of the other cereals which, I guess, are wheat and, seems, rye (at least the one on the right close to that one you think it could be a sorghum head).

I think the peduncles are only to give a prominent look to the maize cobs and are the artist’s free interpretation of nature. However, I’ve seen maize cobs with long peduncles, so long that the ears would be pointing downwards, but didn’t look that straight, though!

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