I sprout on green ears in an autumn farm field, but when dressed up for Halloween trick-or-treating, I am a tricolored sweet made of sugar and wax. What am I?
Candy corn
The riddle contrasts actual agricultural corn, which grows on stalks in fields, with candy corn, the famous tri-colored Halloween treat shaped like individual kernels. Recognizing the shared name between the farm crop and the sugary yellow-orange-white confection yields the correct answer.
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