Fructification

The fructification ( Latin frúctus 'fruit' and fácere 'form') or fruit formation is the formation of seeds and fruits of manageable plants. In mosses , sporangia form , in fungi it is the fruiting bodies . In mycology , the term is also used as a general term for compact, fungal structures such as conidiomata , stroma of ascocarpies , but also plasmodiocarpies of slime molds . If a tree is fructified every year, it is called a fattening year .

literature

• Reinhold Erlbeck, Ilse E. Haseder , Gerhard KF Stinglwagner : The cosmos forest and forest lexicon . Kosmos, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07511-7 .
• Heinrich Dörfelt , Gottfried Jetschke (Ed.): Dictionary of mycology. 2nd Edition. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg / Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8274-0920-9 .