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…

In: Biology

Answer 1

You’re not wrong, but you’re wrong.

First, not all mushrooms are gilled. One of the first things we learn in my country when wanting to learn to forage mushrooms is the main categories of undersides:

– Gills
– Pores
– Spikes
– Swamp
– Ridges
– Others (like puffballs)

In my country, all the horrendous poisonous ones are gilled. The 4 other categories are easier to learn and easier to be safe with. However. There are some really, really good gilled mushrooms, and it’s important to learn them.

However; I’m going on a complete tangent to what you’re asking. I’m not going to try to answer that. I just wanted to point out that gilled mushrooms is only one of many.