Do fungi produce spoors

Answer 1

Yes.

Mushrooms aren't organisms, however. They are simply the fruiting bodies, or 'sporocarps' (sporo - spore, carp - body) of fungi within the Phylum, Basidiomycota. Ascomycota, along with Basidiomycota form the Subkingdom, Dikarya, in the Kingdom of Fungi.

A mushroom is like an apple, or a strawberry; a vehicle of transporting seeds, or in this case, spores. The actual organism (like the apple tree, or strawberry shrub) typically lives underground, and usually looks like fragile hairs - from white to other colors. These 'hairs' are called mycelium, but in other substrates like in wood, for instance, being so much more dense than soil forces the organism to almost creep through the medium, rather than run like roots. This can appear as a "fungal discoloration" on the side of a log, for example.

Spores are similar to seeds, in that they serve the same purpose of ultimately procreating the fungal species. They are different from seeds, however in that they need two or more spores to begin a new rhizomorph which will grow into a new mycelial network, eventually to continue the entire process over again given the right growth conditions.

Answer 2

Yes they do! Actually that's how they grow lil baby mushrooms around them