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HOW DO FUNGI REPRODUCE?

When you next have mushrooms for tea turn one upside down.

Under the cap you will see spokes-just like on a bicycle wheel.

 

 

 

 

These spokes are called gills.

In between the gills, millions of tiny spores are produced.

At first the gills are white but as the fruit ripens they turn pink and finally a purple brown.

The mushroom cap is placed well above the ground so that when the spores are ripe there is room for them to drop out. In each cap there are millions of tiny spores.

The spores are so tiny and light that they are carried away by the slightest breeze before they even reach the ground.

Each spore will become a new mushroom if it lands in a place where the conditions are right for it to grow.

 

 

All fungi reproduce by scattering thousands of these tiny spores.