Discovered by the Aztecs, the bulbous fungus has been consumed in Mexico ... to keeping its cornfields free of what it calls "corn smut" and "the devil's corn." Huitlacoche forms naturally during ...

Tilletia Tritici and T. laevis are fungi which cause the well-known stinking smut disease or bunt of wheat. An affected wheat grain becomes transformed into a sack filled with several million ...