Details for: PI 213757, Zea mays L. subsp. mays, Quapaw Red

On a trip to the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium in March, 2003 by L. Burke, M. Widrlechner, and M. Millard, four remnant original or early increase ears were imaged. The card accompanying the ears when reviewed with other ears of this group at the herbarium indicate these ears were part of a collection assembled by Guy N. Collins at the Bureau of Plant Industry at the USDA. The first three of five digits following an "A" prefix on the herbarium card A58432 matches the digits in the number accompanying the Pioneer donation A 584.

It is uncertain when or how ears of this collection were deposited in the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium. It is also uncertain how Pioneer obtained seed of this collection. It may be that William L Brown of Pioneer who obtained his PH.D. at Washington University in Saint Louis in 1941 with Edgar Anderson obtained seed from the herbarium or directly from the USDA.

The herbarium card indicates the seed was received on February 11, 1933 by the USDA from H.A. Andrews, superintendant of the Quapaw Indian Agency, Miami, Oklahoma. The collection is indicated to be six flint ears with red aleurone and was known as hominy corn. The last two digits on the A58432 identifier appear to indicate the ears came from the 1932 crop.