why do mushrooms grow their gills and spores on the underside of the fruit body? Isn’t it better to grow it on top so that air and passing animals can carry it?

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Edit: Why do **some** mushrooms…

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Others have answered the why, I just wanted to add that mushrooms with their gills above do show up every now and then in mushroom cultivation. However it’s usually just some mutation that occurs, and you’ll find one or two sometimes in a batch.
This can occur through excessive cloning of a culture.