inflorescence corn ear 2012-02-13T11:04:02Z BTO:0005305 BrendaTissueOBO The ears are female inflorescences, tightly covered over by several layers of leaves, and so closed-in by them to the stem that they do not show themselves easily until the emergence of the pale yellow silks from the leaf whorl at the end of the ear, e.g. by Zea mays. XPMUser