In my mycology class, I mentioned examples of parasitic fungi as food and medicine, such as succulent stem of *Zizania latifolia* infected by *Yenia esculenta* (*Ustilago esculenta*); necrotrophic parasites of insect adults, larvae or pupae by caterpillar fungus (*Cordyceps sinensis*), certainly including huitlacoche infected by corn smut fungus (*Ustilago maydis*) as well.
Tiehang Wu On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:08 PM, David Inouye <ino...@umd.edu> wrote: > At a dinner conversation with Carl Zimmer (author of Parasite Rex, etc.) > the question came up of whether there are any parasites regularly consumed > as food (not unintentionally with your food). I came up with one animal > (pea crab) and one fungus (huitlacoche; corn smut). Do you know of others? > > David Inouye >
