Paragraph on “How do fungi reproduce themselves?” complete paragraph for Class 9, Class 10, Class 11 and Class 12

How do fungi reproduce themselves?

Under the top part of a mushroom or toadstool 9 the part called the cap) there are usually lots of thin, delicate folds called gills. Within the gills, millions of spores, which look like tiny specks of dust, are formed. When ripe, these spores drop from the gills and are carried away. Many land in places where they cannot grow into a new fungus, but those that are successful in landing in a suitable place , start to sprout into a new mycelium. Once all the spores are shed, the fruiting body beings to wither and die. Not all fungi produce  spores in a cap with gills, however, some have tiny tubes hanging down in which the spores are produced, a and others, like the puffball shown below, produce spores in a vase – shaped structure which has a hole in the top.  If a splash of rain  lands on the side  of the ‘vase’, this is enough to send millions of spores out into the air in a yellow cloud. Another fungus, the stinkhorn, produces a very unpleasant smell ( you may have notice this if you have ever been near one). Although this smell is unpleasant to us, it is attractive to insects such as flies which come and land on the cap. As they do  so, masses of the stinkhorn’s spores, bodies, and are thus carried away. When the spores fall from the fly, they are able to colonies new gourd and form a mycelium. The cap fungus produces it s spores in long sacs inside the cap, and when ripe, the spores are suddenly released and shoot out.