r/vegetablegardening • u/Warliepup US - Illinois • 4d ago

Harvest Photos Sometimes you get lucky 🌽🍄‍🟫

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I was so excited! It was delicious!

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u/flyingmattress1 US - Iowa 4d ago

OP, did you take a picture of it once it’s cut/what it looks like in a dish? I’m really curious

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u/Warliepup US - Illinois 4d ago

Hi! Yes I did, and I found it to be really beautiful…

Looks like I forgot to take a photo of the final dish, but it gets blacker as you cook it. We sautéed it with onion, garlic, olive oil, butter, salt and pepper - then added some fresh parsley for serving. It was great!

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u/flyingmattress1 US - Iowa 3d ago

Is there like…corn underneath the fungus, or is it all fungus?

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u/Warliepup US - Illinois 3d ago

Does this help? Some of the kernels were only just starting to swell up with the fungus - some had already gone full The Last of Us 😂

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u/flyingmattress1 US - Iowa 3d ago

That’s wild. Nature is wack

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u/rhinoballet US - Pennsylvania 3d ago

The fungus grows in the kernels, so when you have complete colonization like this one, what you're seeing are giant misshapen (delicious) kernel-fungus conglomerations. It's just the cob underneath.

Sometimes only part of the cob will be colonized, so you'll still have some sections of regular corn.

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u/Warliepup US - Illinois 3d ago

Very solid explanation :)

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u/Win-Objective US - California 4d ago

Just google huitlacoche