The stigma of the female flower
Angiosperm pollination is accomplished by the pollen falling upon the corn silk and producing an ear of corn
Silk is non living, for it does not reproduce, respire, or metabolize. It was once part of a living thing, the silkworm caterpillar, which spun the fibre of which the caterpillar made its cocoon. From this cocoon the silk strand was unspun to give us the silk thread.
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Yes, by essentially re-purposing the silk work.
If by silk moth you mean Bombyx mori, the moth used to produce silk commercially, then no. If you mean the Saturniid moths, often called "silk moths" colloquially, then yes.
The female flower styles & stigma. The silk is the stringy fibers on the inside of the corn husk that stick out of the top to catch pollen. Corn silk is also used as a diuretic in herbal medicine.
Yes, corn silk can be woven.Specifically, the threads which jut out from each kernel on an ear of corn constitute what is meant by corn silk. Corn silk lends itself to being woven even though it is extremely fine. Clothing and wigs represent the most successfully marketed of corn silk-woven products and rope the least.
To get straight to the point - the silk is on the ear of corn so it can catch the pollen falling from the tassels on top of the corn plant. Each silk is able to produce one kernel of corn.
You can buy silk flower arrangements from the silk flower store and other stores that sell silk flowers.
There isn't a female and male corn. Each corn plant, however, does have a male and female part. The male part of the plant is at the very top and is called the tassel. The silk on the corn is the Female part. ~tobeornottobe55
The stringy part of corn is usually called corn silk or tassle. Scientifically, each filament is called a "style" and is actually a prolonged portion of the plant ovary.
You name it according to which flower is the most dominant/center of attraction of you silk flower arrangement.
how long does it take for corn silk to work properly?
The silk flower store has silk wreaths that you can buy online.
The "hairs" inside an ear of corn are corn silk.
Since tassels are the male flower of the corn plant (silk is the female part), detasseling is done to control how the corn pollinates itself before the kernels on the ear develop. When the pollen from a tassel touches the silk, a corn kernel develops, which is why detaselling is a good method of controlling how ears grow. Typically, farmers will grow two different types of corn in one field, but only detassel one kind, leaving the other to pollinate all. The detasseled corn will then be a cross-breed (it cannot self-pollinate), which allows for custom-designed ears or produces a higher yield.
Silk conducts pollen down to the kernels. There is one silk strand for each kernel on the cob.