SMUT!

[vuzh]

This is smut:

Comments

[cdozo]

I'd heard of smut (as a disease), but I had no idea what it was. Thanks for the info and the link.

[drhoz]

It's a neat fungus :)

[crossbow1]

Wild - it looks delicious in your picture but in the Wikipedia picture it looks disgusting!

[vuzh]

That's pretty accurate to what it looks like in the field. An ear of corn with an explosion of deformed bluish toe looking things coming out the top. Each one of them is a deformed kernel of corn.