The flavor of freshly harvested huitlacoche—grey-blue in color—hits like biting ... to importing and consistently supplying the corn fungus year-round. She opened the business with longtime ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Huitlacoche, also known as the "Mexican truffle," is an edible fungus that forms on undeveloped corn ears and sells for as much as $40 a pound. Discovered by the ...

A new disease is plaguing cornfields across the Midwest. Phyllachora maydis is the fungus that causes a corn disease called ...