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Commodity Guide Page
The Commodity Guide Page provides general product-related information and may serve as a tool to help regulatory officials identify fruits and vegetables intercepted at U.S. ports of entry.
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Corn Smut Galls |
| Scientific Name(s): |
Ustilago maydis |
| Common Name(s): |
Mexican caviar, Mexican truffles, corn smut galls, cuitlacoche (huitlacoche), maize mushroom |
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| Description: |
Corn smut galls","- Fruiting bodies of Ustilago maydis
- Galls may be naked or attached to parts of the corn plant
- Galls of corn smut (Ustilago maydis) are tumorlike and covered with glistening, greenish to silvery-white tissue
- Galls may be found on any above ground part
- Sclerotia of horse's tooth ergot (Claviceps gigantea) are white to grayish-brown and comma-shaped, resembling a horse's tooth (hence their Spanish name, diente de caballo)
- Sclerotia are on the ear, replacing the corn kernels
- May be several sclerotia per ear
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