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i was checking on some of my corn earlier when i came across this abnormality! what is it and why is it like that?
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Oh gosh...never seen that before!
looking forward to seeing what it is!
Are those lumps squidgey or hard???....anything in them???"Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
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they were rubbery'ish? with sort of like black dirt/sand in them but they wernt like a nutshell full on the inside they were like a bell pepper has grown inside a bell pepper with a fine layer of sand or dirt between the two? i pulled them off, they were like deformed corn maybe when i went around checking my corn for ripeness i peeled some of the leaf back and had a look and squeezed a kernel where i thought they might be ready and maybe i have just disturbed the latest pollinated silks??????? but i do have another freaky thing that is quite cool, i have a few kernels growing on some male flower heads??????????Comment
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Try a google of corn common smut or corn head smut.
Symptoms sound similar galls with black spores inside.
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New one on me to,feel further down the cob,to see if its developing,as we all know,they usually develop bottom to top,but that one looks like it's totherway round,very odd indeedy,do the growths look like corn cernals,could you remove 1,and dissect it to see whats inside.......now that would go well in the funny veg compotition,sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of these
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i pulled them all off! but the were like extensions of the kernels?Comment
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i pulled them all off! but the were like extensions of the kernels?
i just checked and yes it is corn smut, thank you, there was only one small plant affected, the mexicans eat it, it is a fungusComment
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pleased you got it sorted,we learn all the time,sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of theseComment
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I believe it is a corn fungus. I have seen this before.
Description of Wikipedia:
"Corn smut (Ustilago maydis) is a pathogenic plant fungus that causes smut disease on maize and teosinte (Euchlena mexicana). The fungus forms galls on all above-ground parts of corn species, and is known in Mexico as huitlacoche; it is eaten, usually as a filling, in quesadillas and other tortilla-based foods, and soups."Comment
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lifes all about learning!! and i want to know everythingComment
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I was going to say it was huitlacoche!!! Beaten to the punch.....
I read about years ago in a travel book, Tony James I think and his Japanese painter wife....On Mexican Time....
Nope, Tony Cohan...Last edited by taff; 18-08-2013, 11:24 PM.Comment
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