Mountain Corn

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In the uninhabited regions of the Savelan Northlands, where the lands are too rocky to till and the landscape too rugged for settlement, many wild plants grow which provide different uses to the people of Arsavela. Among these is mountain corn, so named for its frequent proximity to stony cliffs and rugged hilltops. This plant is fairly common, and is at the very least plentiful enough to regularly forage without thinning out its population to any notable degree.
These plants grow fairly low to the ground, with pale green husks covering cobs of darker green, which ripen into a brighter yellow-brown. When found ripe in the wild, the husk begins to peel back, revealing fine hairy fibers surrounding the ripe corn cob, which pokes through only slightly.
A common saying in the Northlands states that you'll know it's too soon to eat mountain corn if it still looks like the color of baby vomit. In other words, one should wait until the corn stops being green and takes on its warmer yellow tones before attempting to consume it. Until the corn is fully ripened, there is simply no way to prepare it so that it is a pleasant eating experience for anyone involved.
If one waits too long to harvest the corn the fibers surrounding the corn cob begin to liquefy and deteriorate, reducing the entire cob to mush with it, over the course of several days. This stage of post-ripeness is a favorite of several beetles found in the Northlands, and is essential to some of their breeding cycles.
This corn is a favored treat of many Savelan carrier pigeons, especially those belonging to the families of the northern Harvest Belt, whose lands sometimes see wild specimens popping up on the outskirts of fields and homesteads. The birds enjoy eating the corn both in raw and dried form, and this treat is often presented to the birds in the form of cracked corn. It is often stated that this treat is the real reason many of them come back home every single time they are released.