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well, I got an answer to my ghost corn here so i figured i would try another question. Since it is the christmas season I thought i would ask about this corn. I bought it as a x-mas corn and love the pattern and colors but am curious because I have never got anything definitive on what exactly makes an x-mas corn. Also if anyone can tell me if this is what this is or is it something else?

Thanks,
Don

looks like a normal aztec patterned corn snake. VERY cool pattern though! but thats just MY thought.
~kin
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Corns:
.1 Normal (Gertrude) [just a pet...she started it all]
1. Orange normal (Romeo)
1.2 Miami Phase (Hector, Emily, Charlotte) thanks jeff!
2. Miami Phase part zigzag (Starkey, Mcvitty)[Emilys F2]
1. Amel het Blizzard (Dunesbury) .1 Blizzard (Detta)
1. Classic het Hypo, poss het Amel, Anery (Cobra)
1.1 Classics (Henry VIII, Cassy) [Emilys F1 babies]
.1 Amel (Pepperoni) .1 Orange Reverse Okeetee (Lonna)
1.1 Hypo zig zags poss HET Caramel (Bernard, Abegail)
.1 Hypo HET Stripe (Gracie Lou) 1. Hypo Stripe (Gideon)
1.1 Anery HET Motley (Lleroy, Persia)
.1 Candy Cane (Peaches HoneyBlossom) [Just a pet]
1. Abbotts Okeetee (Albert) [Charlottes son]
1.1 Snow (Crickle, Isis) .1 Green Snow (Maya)
1. Caramel poss HET Butter (Topher)
.1 Anery stripe (V) [husbands snake...he named it]
1.2 Bloodred HET Amel 1. Amel HET Bloodred

Others:
1.1 Black rats (Willard, Cecily)
1.1 Striped Cal Kings (Dweezil, Skunky)
1. High-white Reverse Spotted Cal King (Wishbone)
.1 Albino Stripe Cal King (Eve)
.1 Bananna spotted/stripe cal king (Speckle) Thanks Jeff!!!
1.1 Thayeri (Giuseppe[MSP], Cheyenne)
1.1 Creamsicle HET Motley(Orangejello, Genevieve)
1. Creamsicle motley (no name) Thanks Jimmy!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~LEOPARD GECKOS~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.1 Blizzard (Blitz)
.1? High yellow (no name)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~TURTLES~~~~~~~~~~~~
.1 white cheeked mud (Opel)
.1 snapping turtle (no name, ideas welcome)

It does look like a nice normal aztec corn. As far as the Christmas corn morph, I have read in I think was one of Bartletts books on corns and ratsnakes that the Christmas morph was developed through selective breeding of insular corns found in N. Carolina (if I remember the location correctly as well LOL). The Chrismas line supposedly replaced the black blotch borders by a greenish color. I never did see a good photo of a classic example of this morph to say it truly had the back replaced with a greenish color.

I would have to agree, that looks like a normal aztec. The christmas corn expresses a simple recessive hypo-like gene, its origins are traced back to Daufuskie Island in South Carolina.
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Arlon Delorge
Classic Constrictors

I agree with the others - Aztec. That one not only has a nice pattern, but it has retained some good contrasting colors as well.

Tim

Third Eye

Very nice.
I'm still learning all the various colours and morphs so was very pleased with myself when I quessed the same as everyone else hehe
My snake is also a christmas corn, but only coz it was my pressie 2 years ago! As far as I know she's a normal okeetee but I've yet to figure out how to post pictures.

Happy christmas all!