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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I just want to add that everyone’s saying that gravity is the force that pulls the spores out of a mushroom are not technically correct.

There’s a process called Ballistospory the mushroom uses to eject the spores out of it’s gills. Because the spores are literally microscopic, they have very little mass, therefore they need an incredible amount of force to ‘throw” them.

Long story short, the spores experience over 5000 G’s of force to be shot out of the mushrooms.