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Tassel (W3)

Corn: Tassel Emergence and Pollen Shed

July 10, 2020

By Bob Nielsen, Purdue University Extension Agronomist

Biscia Tassellata - Natrix tessellata Laurenti 1768

Atlante della Fauna selvatica italiana - Rettili
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Friday, July 26, 2013

What is a Corn Tassel?
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What is a tassel?

Simply put, the "tassel" is the top most part of a corn plant. Here is a picture that shows a corn plant with the "tassel" fully opened or out.

The "corn tassel" is the part of the plant where the pollen comes from. The pollen pollinates the ear of corn, which causes the ear of corn to grow. Pollination occurs when pollen falls off the tassel and then blows through the wind and eventually comes in contact with the silk on the top of the ear of corn. Ears of corn start growing silk at the beginning of the R stages. When the silks dry and turn brown, the pollination process is done and the ear of corn will continue to grow.
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Definition of "tassel"

1. A bunch of loose threads or cords bound at one end and hanging free at the other, used as an ornament on curtains or clothing, for example.

2. Something that resembles such an ornament, especially the pollen-bearing inflorescence of a corn plant.

The staminate or male inflorescence produced at the top of the maize or corn plant.

• noun
• 1. a pendent ornament consisting commonly of a bunch of threads, small cords, or other strands hanging from a roundish knob or head, used on clothing, in jewelry, on curtains, etc.
• 2. something resembling this, as the inflorescence of certain plants, especially that at the summit of a stalk of corn.
• verb (used with object), tas·seled, tas·sel·ing or (especially British) tas·selled, tas·sel·ling.
• 3. to furnish or adorn with tassels.
• 4. to form into a tassel or tassels.
• 5. to remove the tassel from (growing corn) in order to improve the crop.
• verb (used without object), tas·seled, tas·sel·ing or (especially British) tas·selled, tas·sel·ling.
• 6. (of corn) to put forth tassels (often followed by out).

What to Know About Tassel Corn

By Tracy Pell | Aug. 21, 2018

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What IS That Thing Growing on the Top of My Corn?

At approximately 50 days after planting corn, depending on the variety, you will notice a tall, thin growth coming out of the top of your corn stalk. It starts as one shoot, then rapidly grows additional shoots which have a feathered appearance. The entire part is called the "tassel" and indeed looks like a "tassel" you might find at the end of a pull cord.
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What are Corn Plant Tassels?

The male flower of the corn plant is known as a "corn tassel". After the bulk of the plant growth is complete, tassels will appear on top of the plant. Corn plant tassels can be green, purple, or yellow.

The tassel’s job is to produce pollen that encourages the growth and ripening of the corn ear. Wind carries the pollen to the female flower, or the silk, on the corn plant.

Corn is not overly difficult to grow; however, some gardeners have concerns when their corn tassels too soon.
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Ruppia cirrhosa (Petagna) Grande - Spiral Tasselweed - Ruppiaceae

Ruppia maritima L. - Beaked Tasselweed - Ruppiaceae

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What is a corn tassel?

The "tassel" is the top most part of a corn plant. The bottom left picture shows a corn plant with the tassel fully opened or out, and the middle picture is one with the "tassel" stilled rolled up in the top leaves of the corn plant. This middle picture is normally what the plant looks like when we actually "detassel", or "remove the tassel" from the plant. This process is done by simply pulling it out with your hand, then throwing it on the grown. The bottom right picture is what the plant looks like after the "tassel" has been removed.
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Aphids on corn tassel

Grasshoppers on pretassel-stage corn

Corn tasseling

Tassel Ears in Corn

Tassel Ears in Corn