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The part of a fungus that produces spores is the fruiting body.

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A sporangium is a structure in which spores are formed. Plants, fungi, and some other organisms form sporangia.

When most people see a sporocarp they call this a mushroom or toadstool. This fleshy fruiting body is only the visible part of the living organism that is popular for eating. The fruiting body only develops as part of the sexual phase of the fungal life cycle for spore production.

In fungi, the sporocarp is the fruiting body (or fruit body). It is the large structure that contains the smaller contains spore-producing structures, such as basidia or asci. A basidium usually bears four (sometimes eight or more) sexual spores. An ascus, in ascomycete fungi have typically eight ascospores, but some species have other numbers.

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