http://oregonstate.edu/dept/hort/233/sweetcorn.htm


Male: The male inflorescence, the tassel, is also made of spikelets in pairs
with one or more individual florets in each spikelet. Rudimentary pistils
are present but do not ordinarily develop.

This seems to imply female parts are present in the male flower, but I'm no
botanist.




"Trevor Appleton" wrote in message
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Whilst picking my first sweet corn the other day I noticed some seeds
growing at the base of the male flowers.



If the top flowers are male and the cobs are female, what is the botanical
theory behind these 'seeds'.



Would they be viable (if they weren't F1 hybrids, which they are).



Would they be identical genetically to the 'female' seeds?