On Aug 22, 6:47�pm, "Chris Marksberry"
> wrote:
> My husband was shucking corn a little while ago and inside he found a tiny
> ear of corn next to the whole ear. It looks like the kind you'd see pickled.
> Never saw that before.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/7212057@N07/2788241490/

Abnormalities in corn and many other vegetables is very common, there
are many reasons, some genetic, some due to stress; weather/
fertilizers, and sometimes for no definitive reason. In my own garden
I often find abnormalities, side shoots occur often, sometimes along
side, sometimes internally, sometimes in multiples such as two or more
cabbage heads on one plant, usually externally but sometimes
internal. Last year a few of my fennel plants produced multiple bulbs
both external and internal on the same plant.. tasted just fine....
I've grown celery the same. Corn very often will occur with multiple
ears from a single node like a bouquet. From such abnormalities are
how new plant varieties are sometimes developed.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...1/ai_n25390911


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