Can I eat this infected corn? 🌽 I wouldn’t recommend eating this one raw. I tried it, and it wasn’t very good. Generally speaking, I don’t advise eating any fungi raw. I was really excited to get to try this fungi-vegetable combo! I took some of the spores from the older ones and scattered them around my yard, so if I ever grow sweet corn in the future, I may be able to get my own huitlacoche! Have you ever seen this fungus before? #huitlacoche #cornsmut #foraging | Feral Foraging

Woah, what is that?Huitlacoche, also called corn smut (Ustilago maydis) or the Mexican truffle, is a fungus that grows on corn cobs. It forms when two single spore cells called sporidia meet on the surface of a host plant. Here, the two cells will mate and fuse to form a long, root-like arm called the hypha, which enters into the corn and begins to infect the host. Once infected, the corn kernels will swell and grow into these galls, which release more huitlacoche spores as they mature. Despite

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Edible Corn Fungus?!