Jan 21, 2025
Daily Fungi Fact 69: Basidiomycetes (a phylum of fungi that most mushrooms belong to) produce basidiospores, basidiospores are a type of spore, they typically have 1 haploid nucleus each, which was created from meiosis. Basidiospores are created by a specialised cell called a basidium(plural of basidium is basidia). The Giant Puffball(Calvatia gigantea) has been calculated to produce about 5 trillion basidiospores.