The First Images of Maize in Europe Purdue University
Turkey being considered exotic in the 16th century. However, the name for maize is Egyptian corn in Turkey and Syrian dourra in Egypt (Candolle, 1890). The print of maize in De Historias Stirpium is not the first European image. Caneva (1992a,b) and Cherubini (1992) have reported that maize images can be found at the Roman villa
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