- Gleba
Gleba is the fleshy
spore -bearing inner mass offungi such as thepuffball orstinkhorn .The gleba is a solid mass of spores, generated within an enclosed area within the
sporocarp . The continuous maturity of the sporogenous cells leave the spores behind as a powdery mass that can be easily blown away. The gleba may be sticky or it may be enclosed in a case (peridiole) [cite web | url = http://www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us/Terms/gleba304.html | title = Gleba definition, Illinois Mycological Association | accessdate = 2007-12-04 | quote = ] .It is a tissue usually found in an angiocarpous fruit-body, especially
gasteromycetes . Angiocarpous fruit-bodies usually consists of fruit enclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; such as thefilbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in itscupule .The presence of gleba can be found inearthball s andpuffball s. The gleba consists ofmycelium , andbasidia and may also containcapillitium threads.Gleba was referenced in the "
Friends " episode "The One with the Lottery ", when it was apparently baby Emma's first word.References
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