Gleba
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Gleba is the fleshy spore bearing inner mass of certain fungi.
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).[1]
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 the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule.The presence of gleba can be found in earthballs and puffballs.The gleba consits of mycelium, and basidia and may also contain capillitium threads.
[edit] References in popular culture
In the TV series Friends, Ross and Rachel's child Emma's first word is "gleba".
[edit] References
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