Tiny Ear of Corn
Gloria P wrote:
> Kathleen wrote:
>>
>> It was a smooth silver gray oval, maybe two inches long by an inch and
>> a half wide, sort of a cabochon in shape, perhaps 3/8" thick at the
>> center, thinner at the perimeters.
>>
>> It lifted away cleanly from the corn when pried up with the edge of a
>> spoon. The Thing bore the imprint of the corn kernels on its
>> underside, the corn itself was unmarked.
>>
>> I cut it in half lengthwise (to the accompaniment of more yelps and
>> squeals) and the texture was smooth and uniform all the way through.
>> No sign of internal structure or organs or any other gooshy stuff that
>> you might expect from any sort of larva. Cut it again crossways,
>> nothing but more of the same.
>>
>> Shrugged, tossed it in the trash to be followed, at the girls'
>> insistence, by the host ear of corn.
>>
>> My impression was of some sort of fungus or mushroomy thing, but the
>> corn fungus images turned up on a google search looked nothing like
>> what we'd found.
>>
>> Never seen anything like it before or since.
>>
>
> Did you google huitlacoche or corn smut?
>
> gloria p
Yeah. I want it!
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Jean B.
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