Japanese Hulless Popcorn

Over the decades, ‘Japanese Hulless’ has also been sold as ‘Tom Thumb’, ‘Australian Hulless’,^[2] and ‘Dwarf Baby Rice’. Its exact history has been elusive but searching our horticultural library, it began appearing in most of the old seed company catalogs by the early 1920s. The earliest listing that we have found to date is its introduction in the Livingston Seed Company‘s catalog in 1918. They listed it as “Livingston’s Tom Thumb or Japanese Hulless,”* declaring:

Because of its excellent attributes, it has not lost its appeal to home gardeners. Each ounce is approximately 170 seeds.