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Northeast Nebraska | Basically, the tassel and the ear start out is bisexual flowers before we ever see them. In other words, they have both male and female parts. Then under normal circumstances the male parts of the ear and the female parts of the tassel terminate, creating separate male and female flowers.
What you are seeing is the result of the female portion of the tassel not terminating. This makes the tassel-ear. It is extremely rare for this to happen on the main stalk, lots of times these will show up on tillers (sometimes called "suckers") arising from the base of the corn plant. Is this on the edge of the field? Sometimes with the extra sunlight and less competition the plants on the endrows will shoot out some tillers and these will end up with tassel ears. | |
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Ear where tassel should be
